The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal group portrait of the RAN students who attended the No 2 Radar Course conducted at Sydney University. Professor Victor Bailey, of the Radio Physics Department at Sydney University, conducted three Radar courses for selected members of the RAAF and RAN. The graduates were commonly known as 'Bailey's Boys'. No's 1 and 3 Course's were for the RAAF and No 2 Course was a joint course of RAN and RAAF students. The Navy students were initially enlisted as sailors and the men who successfully completed the course were then commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy Volunteer Reserve (RANVR) as Specialist Radar Officers. This was the only course for Specialist Radar Officers conduced during the Second World War. When the Navy component of No 2 Course graduated early in 1942, the successful students were commissioned and sent to HMAS Watson, the RAN Radar Training School, to continue their training on Navy radar equipment. Left to right, back row: Able Seaman (AB) Alistair Mackenzie, RANVR; Unknown; Unknown; AB R Coyle, RANVR; AB F Barnes, RANVR: AB R Slatyer, RANVR; AB J Palliser, RANVR; AB C Taylor, RANVR; AB C Estwick, RANVR; AB R Whitten, RANVR. Front row: AB C Greaves, RANVR; AB J Medhurst, RANVR; Unknown; AB K Glover, RANVR; AB R Lukey, RANVR; AB D O'Keefe, RANVR; AB C McIvor, RANVR.
Group portrait of half of the officers who successfully completed No 2 Radar Course. Professor Victor Bailey, of the Radio Physics Department at Sydney University, conducted three Radar courses for se
Group portrait of lecturers, wives and participants of the third Radio Physics Course at the University of Sydney which ran from August 1942 to March 1943. The men were known as 'Bailey's Boys' after
Informal group portrait of personnel connected with Operation Jaywick. Back row, left to right, Major (Maj) Herbert Alan Campbell (did not accompany the expedition); B/2575 Leading Stoker James Patric
A group on board MV Krait en route to the Singapore area during Operation Jaywick. Left to right: back row, S/6543 Able Seaman (AB) Walter Gordon Falls, RAN; B/1506 Acting Leading Seaman Kevin Patrick
A group on board MV Krait en route to the Singapore area during Operation Jaywick. Left to right: back row, S/6543 Able Seaman (AB) Walter Gordon Falls, RAN; B/1506 Acting Leading Seaman Kevin Patrick
The crew of HMAS Riversnake at Port Victoria, North West Borneo, on the occasion of the decommissioning of the vessel from the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD). The Riversnake and other vessel
