The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal outdoors portrait of 441014 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Stephen Patrick Cloake, an Air Gunner (AG) with 21 Squadron RAAF (note the AG badge worn above his left shirt pocket). On having first enlisted in the AIF and been given the service number of QX54912 (Q153324) Flt Sgt Cloake was called up by the RAAF on 9 July 1944. He was killed on operations on 27 July 1945 when his Liberator (B-24L) A72-92 crashed after being hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire over the Celebes, Netherlands East Indies, on 27 July 1945. Nine of the crew of 12 were killed outright and three survived the crash only to be quickly captured by the Japanese and executed, becoming some of the last Australians to be killed on active service in the Second World War. Flt Sgt Cloake was aged 20. (see also crew group portrait at P08405.003.)
Studio portrait of 427095 Flying Officer (FO) John James Oliver Hume, 21 Squadron RAAF, of Fremantle, WA. He enlisted from Perth on 20 May 1942. FO Hume died on operations co-piloting a Liberator (B-2
Informal group portrait which includes 10 of the 12 crew members of Liberator (B-24L) A72-92 which later crashed after being attacked by Japanese anti-aircraft fire over the Celebes, East Indies, on 2
Studio portrait of 403585 Flying Officer (FO) Kenneth John Hanson, 21 Squadron, of Killara, NSW. FO Hanson was a clerk at the Commonwealth Oil Refineries prior to enlisting in February 1941. He trai
Studio portrait of 435651 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) William James (Billy) Cornes of Croydon, NSW. Enlisting in the RAAF in July 1943, Flt Sgt Cornes trained as an air gunner, and was posted to 24 Squa
Studio portrait of 403768 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Harry Stroud, No. 24 Squadron, RAAF. Flt Lt Stroud was killed in air operations over Borneo on 2 July 1945. This photograph was enclosed in a coll
Informal portrait of 438586 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Leslie William Devereux, No. 24 Squadron, RAAF. Flt Sgt Devereux was killed in air operations over Borneo on 2 July 1945. This photograph was enc
