The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) 423408 Kenneth Gordon Robertson, RAAF and No 97 Squadron, RAF. Fl Lt Robertson is wearing his RAF dress uniform with his wings and the RAF Path Finder Force Badge below on his right hand side of his jacket. The award of the Path Finder Force Badge was formally awarded to Flt Lt Robertson on 22 May 1945 by the Air Officer Commanding the Path Finder Force. Born at Merungle Hill, NSW, in 1921, the son of an Australian Army Nursing sister and a 1st AIF soldier, met at Harefield Hospital, they became soldier settlers. Aged 18 when the Second World War commenced he served part-time with the militia No 56 Battalion at Leeton. He continued to serve with the militia until 1942 when he enlisted with the RAAF for aircrew training. Selected to become a pilot he completed his initial air training at Temora, NSW, he sailed to Alberta, Canada, to continue his instruction at the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) with the No 7 Service Flying Training School (7SFTS) at Macleod. After graduation as a pilot in July 1943, Robertson was selected for further training in the United Kingdom to become a member of the RAF’s elite ‘Path Finder Force’. He was then posted to No 97 (Path Finder) Squadron, RAF, based in Lincolnshire as a Lancaster pilot. He returned to Australia with the rank of flight lieutenant and was discharged in September 1945.
Brown leather thermally insulated 'Irvin' flying jacket lined with a thick layer of brown pile fleece. The jacket has long sleeves with zippers running from the wrist to the elbow along the inner arm.
RAAF blue wool serge battledress blouse with fold down collar and two pleated patch breast pockets with concealed button closure. The blouse is fastened down the centre by five concealed black plastic
Brown leather thermally insulated 'Irvin' flying jacket lined with a thick layer of brown pile fleece. The jacket has long sleeves with zippers running from the wrist to the elbow along the inner arm.
Group portrait of Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt ) 423408 Kenneth Gordon Robertson (back row, fifth from left) and his crew grouped in front of the RAF Lancaster III aircraft, number PB706 D, codenamed G f
SYDNEY, NSW. 1946-08. PORTRAIT OF FLIGHT LIEUTENANT DAVID MACDONALD (DON) CRUDEN DFC RAAF, FORMERLY A NAVIGATOR WITH NO. 582 SQUADRON, PATH FINDER FORCE, RAF, FOLLOWING HIS INVESTITURE WITH THE DFC. N
Identification portrait of 412808 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) George Ashmore Leeton Evatt, of Wollstonecraft, NSW. A public servant clerk prior to enlisting on 20 July 1941, he completed his initial tr
O316957 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) William Allen (Bill) Gill, Iroquois helicopter pilot of Canberra, ACT, checking the controls of his helicopter shortly after his arrival at Vung Tau. Prior to Flt L
RAAF blue wool serge battledress blouse with fold down collar and two pleated patch breast pockets with concealed button closure. The blouse is fastened down the centre by five concealed black plastic