The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian Air Training scheme (EATS) participants near Ottawa, walk from their Harvard advanced training aircraft in the snow. Left to right: Leading Aircraftman (LAC) W J Kennedy, possibly 409552 Flying Officer (FO) William Joseph Kennedy; 400146 LAC (later Sergeant [Sgt]) Robert Arthur Knappett (lost on operations over Tobruk Libya on 26 November 1941; 402260 LAC (later Flight Sergeant) Raymond Harold Charles Sly, and 400151 LAC (later Pilot Officer) William Jeffrey Metherall. (Photograph reproduced in Official History Volume: Air War against Germany and Italy 1939-1943, page 111).
UPLANDS, CANADA. c.1941. A HARVARD TRAINING AIRCRAFT OVER THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE SERVICE FLYING SCHOOL NEAR OTTAWA, WHERE MANY AUSTRALIANS COMPLETED PILOTS' COURSES. (PHOTOGRAPH REPRODUCED IN OF
422433 Leading Aircraftmen Laurence Drummond Coutts (later Flying Officer [FO]); 422779 Andrew Leslie West (later Flight Sergeant [Flt Sgt], lost on operations over NW Europe on 25 June 1944) and 4224
Studio portrait of 406638 Flying Officer (FO) Raymond Edward Norton Butcher, 101 Squadron RAF, of Armadale, WA. A car salesman prior to enlistment, FO Butcher served in the RAF after training with th
Studio portrait of militia Sergeant Raymond Edward Norton Butcher, 16 Battalion Cameron Highlanders, WA. He later trained under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) and served in 101 Squadron, RAF.
A group of airmen from New South Wales recently received their wings at No. 7 Service Flying Training School at Mcleod Alberta as Leading Aircraftmen (LAC) in the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Iden
Departure of the ship 'Largs Bay' with the first party of RAAF members to complete their training within Australia under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). Left to right are shown 402044 Pilot Off
