The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Officer (PO, later Flying Officer [FO]) William Wallace Anderson; 402060 PO (later FO) Sydney Douglas Marshall; 404077 PO (later FO) Geoffrey Lloyd Wells. FO Anderson was lost on operations over France with 258 Squadron, RAF on 18 June 1941. FO Marshall was lost on operations with 15 Squadron, RAF over the English Channel on 18 July 1941, while FO Wells was killed on operations over Holland with 99 Squadron RAF on 17 August 1941. FO Anderson and Marshall have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede memorial in Surrey, UK. FO Wells is buried in the Jonkerbos cemetery near Nymegen in the Netherlands.
Flight Sergeant (later Pilot Officer [PO]) 412021 Bryan Alphonsus McConnell DFM, 464 Squadron, RAAF of Clarence River NSW, at RAF station Methwold, England. PO McConnell was lost on operations over Su
Studio portrait of 421118 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) David McNab Thomson, 192 Squadron RAF, of Sydney NSW. Flt Sgt Thomson enlisted on 7 December 1941 and trained as a pilot in Australia and Canada un
The RAAF made a mass raid on Lakunai Aerdrome, Rabaul, with Beaufort Bomber aircraft. Members of one of the crews of 100 Squadron, RAF who took part are 416874 Pilot Officer (PO, later Flying Officer
Group portrait of pilots of No. 453 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF, based at an RAF Station at Drem. Left to right: Squadron Leader Morello, RAF Commanding Officer; 403046 Sergeant (Sgt, later Flight Lieute
Studio portrait of 406365 Flying Officer (FO) Alexander Norman RAAF, 12 Squadron, RAF. FO Norman's Wellington aircraft Z8403 was shot down on operations over the North Sea on 27 August 1942. His body
Group portrait of members of an RAAF group. Identified left to right: back row: Sergeants (Sgts) 404182 Harold Fawcett McKay (later Flying Officer (FO)); 404261 Francis Gerard (Gerry) Poulton (later
