Collection relating to the service of the Phillips family Accession Number: AWM2016.227.12

Description

Group portrait of RAAF cadets with signatures on the reverse. Identified in the back row, second from the right is 420046 Richard Phillips, later Flying Officer at 7 Operational Training Unit. Others in the group can only be identified by their signatures on the reverse of the image and by comparing names with official numbers and date of enlistment. Believed to be also in the group but positions unknown: 420056 James Brignall Richardson (later Leading Aircraftman (LAC) at 6 Service Flying Training School, Mallala, South Australia and killed in an accident at Montieth on 4 August 1942); 420036 James George McNally (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) at 10 Local Air Supply Unit); 420041 Clyde Stewart Parker (later Flying Officer (FO) at No 203 Squadron); 420075 Alan Miller Sweetnam (later Flt Lt at 1 Wireless Gunnery School); 420072 David Lowe Sneddon (later FO at 19 Group HQ); 420063 James Colin Saisell (later PO at No 34 Squadron and killed on flying operations over Burma on 20 February 1945); 420082 Christopher Gordon Turner (later Flt Lt at Air Defence HQ); 420093 Alexander Harold Will (later FO at No 227 Squadron and killed on flying operations over Greece on 26 January 1944); 408308 Alvyn Douglas Farquhar (later Pilot Officer (PO) at General Reconnaissance School); 420028 Robert Murray Murden (later FO at No 5 Squadron); 420055 Patrick William James Rendle (later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) at No 78 Squadron and killed on flying operations over Cologne, Germany on 29 June 1943); 409782 Peter Robert Bodmer Danne (later LAC and discharged 19 April 1942); 420044 Neil Moreton Peters (later Flt Lt at No 35 Sqn and awarded DFC); 408318 Geoffrey Shield (later FO at No 466 Squadron); 429961 Eric Eardley Rossiter (later Flt Sgt at 14 Operations Base Unit); 420042 Herbert Alan Rayden Payne (later Flt Lt at 42 Operations Base Unit); 420099 John Edward Walker (AC2 and discharged 4 January 1942); 420062 Victor Wrighton Saint (AC2 and discharged 27 December 1941); 420101 Lloyd Douglas Godfrey, (later Flt Lt at 1 Operational Training Unit); 420089 Ernest Arthur Webb (later FO at No 12 Squadron); 420029 Vincent Alwyn McCarthy (later F Sgt at No 680 Squadron and killed on flying operations over Greece on 14 February 1944); 420032 Alexander Edward McGee (later Warrant Officer (WO) at No 458 Squadron and killed on flying operations over the Mediterranean Sea on 8 April 1944); 420057 Robert Joseph Prior (later Sgt at RAF Station Grangemouth and killed in a flying accident near Clackmannon, Scotland on 10 June 1943); 8292 Trevor Raymond Warren (later Sgt at 3 Embarkation Depot Sandgate); 408322 Llewellyn Evelyn Williams (later FO at 1 Operational Training Unit). The others are unidentified.

Details

Accession Number
AWM2016.227.12
Photographer
Edwin G Adamson
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Date Made
19 October 1941
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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