OG0370 Accession Number: OG0370

Description

Informal portrait of ground crew of No. 22 (Boston) Squadron RAAF at Kiriwina with an aircraft stripped for an inspection. Identified from left to right: Sergeant A Edmond from Newcastle, NSW; 61095 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Donald Coutts Piddington from Goondiwindi, Queensland; 54008 LAC Kenneth John Heaney from Melbourne, Victoria; 18902 Corporal Henry Mark Nisbet from Melbourne; LAC D R Lamond (probably 45515 LAC Donald Roderick Lamont from Western Australia); 20166 LAC Bayliss Broughton Garland from Tamworth, NSW; 35220 LAC William Charles Hewson from Lockhart, NSW (later Corporal); 64506 LAC Leslie Howard Johns from Hillston, NSW (on top of aircraft); 61627 LAC Henry Maurice Hann from Broadwater, NSW; and 62941 LAC Andrew Keith Glasse from North Sydney, NSW.

Details

Conflicts

• Second World War, 1939-1945

Places

• New Guinea

Units

• No. 22 Squadron

Tags

• Aircraft maintenance
• Boston aircraft