The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
England. C. 1942. 406022 Squadron Leader Hugo Throssell Armstrong DFC and Bar, RAAF of Perth, WA, Commanding Officer of No. 611 (West Lancashire) Spitfire Squadron. Sqn Ldr Armstrong was a member of the first Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) course and one of the earliest EATS graduates to command a squadron. He was killed in action on 5 February 1943 while flying over the English Channel.
406022 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Hugo Throssell Armstrong DFC and Bar, RAAF of Perth, WA (centre), Squadron Commander of No. 611 (West Lancashire) Spitfire Squadron, shot down two Messerschmitt BF109
RAF Station Tangmere, England. C. 1942. Group Captain Malan of South Africa talking to 406022 Squadron Leader Hugo Throssell Armstrong RAAF, No. 611 Squadron RAF of Perth WA, who is in the cockpit of
Memorial headstone of Squadron Leader Hugo Throssell Armstrong DFC and Bar, killed over the English Channel February 1943. The headstone was erected by his mother, sisters and brother, and placed in t
Group portrait of the graduates of No 2 Course (Beaufighter), No 5 Operational Training Unit, RAAF. Identified members are in the front row: Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Bruce Rose DFC; and on his left S
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth
Studio portrait of 402882 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) John Ronald Savage, No 7 Squadron RAF, of Woy Woy, NSW. Sqn Ldr Savage enlisted in November 1940 and trained under the Empire Air Training Scheme (E
