NWA0732 Accession Number: NWA0732

Description

An informal group portrait of a crew from a Consolidated Liberator bomber of No. 21 Squadron RAAF standing beside their aircraft. Left to right: back row: 443444 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) John Munro Waddell, Sydney NSW; 439612 Flt Sgt Leslie Raine of Sydney; 433632 Flt Sgt Keith Jowett White of Sydney; 30337 Flt Sgt Walter William Trevor Sayer of Launceston Tasmania; 401867 Warrant Officer (WO) Colin George Vickers of Melbourne Vic; 407825 Flying Officer (FO) Bernard Thomas Jordan of Adelaide SA and 255138 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Eric Valentine Ford of Melbourne. Front row: WO N. A. Drury of Melbourne (probably 409393 FO Arthur Nigel Drury); 431408 Flt Sgt Ian Faichnie of Melbourne; 424373 WO Alan Noel John Collins of Sydney and 406568 Flt Lt William Laing of Perth Western Australia. All of the above crew excepting Flt Sgts Sayer and Vickers and probably FO Drury were lost on operations over the Netherland West Indies on April 6 1945.

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Accession Number
NWA0732
Photographer
Department of Air
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Format: 3x4"
Support: Acetate
Date Made
March 1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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