MEA0226 Accession Number: MEA0226

Description

Pilots of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF resting on their billets at a landing ground. Some read letters and magazines; others relax on a camp stretcher and in a canvas deck chair. Pictured: unidentified (left, sitting on boxes); 403693 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Kenneth Goulder MID (back left); 023025 (411914) Sergeant (later Squadron Leader) John Frederick Howell-Price; 416168 Flt Sgt (later Flying Officer [FO]) Peter Driffield Gilbert; 411022 Flt Sgt (later FO) Edward Hankey. Flt Sgt Goulder was killed with 3 Squadron on 8 August, 1943 in the European theatre of operations. He has no known grave.

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Accession Number
MEA0226
Photographer
Flying Officer Laurence Craddock Le Guay
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Format: 120 (roll film)
Support: Nitrate
Date Made
July 1943
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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