The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Waddington, England. The crew of Avro Lancaster, coded PO-F of 467 Squadron RAAF. Pilot, Flying Officer D. M. Hughes, DFC; Flight Engineer, Sergeant W. G. Robertson; Navigator, Flying Officer J. J. Harrod; Bomb Aimer, Flight Sergeant H. Johnstone; Wireless Operator, Flight Sergeant G. Dickson; Air Gunner, Flight Sergeant J. E. Lloyd; Air Gunner, Flight Sergeant A. J. Munro. (Lent by J. Holden)
The Australian pilot in this photograph is 417856 Pilot Officer David Myrddin Hughes of Prospect South Australia. He joined 467 Squadron RAAF on 16 July 1944 and left the Squadron on 14 December 1944. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) for '. . numerous operations against the enemy in the course of which he has invariably displayed the utmost fortitude, courage and devotion to duty'. He survived the war, returned to Australia and discharged from the RAAF.
On 14 March 1949 he re-joined the RAAF and he was posted to the RAAF School of Air Navigation at East Sale, Victoria. On 26 September 1949 he was the pilot of an Avro Anson, serial AW660, on a routine training flight near Lakes Entrance Victoria when the aircraft and four other crewmen disappeared. Several days later some wreckage washed ashore and it was deemed by the authorities at the time that the Anson had impacted the sea at high speed and that there were no survivors nor bodies recovered.
Laverton, Vic. 1945-04-06. Squadron Leader John Whiting, pilot (left), and Flight Sergeant Matt Moore, Wireless Air Gunner, of No. 67 Squadron RAAF on their return after a flight in one of the squadro
Female intelligence officer at the Royal Air Force Station receiving a report from members of the crew of G George, Avro Lancaster of 460 Squadron RAAF, after an attack on Berlin, Germany 26 November
Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England. December 1943. "G for George" the Avro Lancaster Heavy Bomber of No. 460 Squadron RAAF, with the air and ground crews. Left to right: Unidentified ground crew member;
Nowra, NSW. 1942-02. Informal group portrait of three members of an Avro Anson aircraft crew with No. 73 Squadron RAAF. Left to right: Flying Officer (FO) Ray Spalding, wireless air gunner; FO James M
Group portrait of the crew of pilot of 403727 William Edmund ‘Ted’ Eagleton, No. 466 Squadron RAAF. Identified, left to right, back row: Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Hughes DFC, wireless operator; Flyin
Darwin, NT. c. 1944. After his arrival Mr William Morris (Billy) Hughes MP and crew members stand beside a RAAF Avro Anson aircraft. Left to right: 401837 Flying Officer J. Slade of Glen Iris, Vic (pi
