P08761.001 Accession Number: P08761.001

Description

Studio portrait of 426979 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Alexander Hunter Nicol RAAF, later of 50 Squadron, RAF and his brother 426005 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Ross Harel Nicol, 7 Operational Training Unit, a navigator. Flt Sgt (later Flying Officer (FO)) Nicol of Brisbane, Qld, trained as a pilot following his enlistment on 9 September 1942. FO Nicol died on operations flying a Lancaster LM 234 Aircraft over Germany on 14 January 1945, aged 20. He is buried in the Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery. Flt Lt Nicol was discharged on 30 November 1945.

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Accession Number
P08761.001
Photographer
Michael Baratin
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date Made
c 1942
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor J Nicol
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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