The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Biferno, Italy. 10 February 1945. No. 249 (Mustang) Squadron RAF which has had two RAAF commanding officers in succession, is keeping up the high reputation it built for itself during the Battle of Britain and blitz days of Malta, and is now part of the Balkans Air Force. It has been operating in Italy for several months in support of Tito's Partisans in Yugoslavia. The commanding officer, 402326 Squadron Leader Charles E. Edmondson of Wodonga, Vic (right), is chatting with his fitter Sergeant N. Clamp of Southport, England, prior to leading a strafing mission over Yugoslavia. The Squadron operates from an airfield covered in steel matting laid on a beach on the Adriatic coast.
Biferno, Italy. 10 February 1945. No. 249 (Mustang) Squadron RAF which had two RAAF commanding officers (CO) (both awarded the DSO) in succession, is keeping up the high reputation it built up for its
Biferno, Italy. 10 February 1945. No. 249 (Mustang) Squadron RAF which has had two RAAF commanding officers in succession, is maintaining the high reputation it built up for itself during the Malta bl
Biferno, Italy. 10 February 1945. No. 249 (Mustang) Squadron RAF which had two RAAF commanding officers in succession, is maintaining the high reputation it built up for itself during the Malta blitz
Biferno, Italy. 10 February 1945. Informal portrait of 402326 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Charles E. Edmondson of Wodonga, Vic, commanding officer of No. 249 Squadron RAF. Note the North American P51 Mu
Italy. c. November 1944. Informal portrait of 402326 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) C. E. Edmondson of Wodonga, Vic, (one of the first forty to train in Rhodesia), Commanding Officer of the famous Gold Coa
Italy. c. November 1944. Informal portrait of 409202 Flight Lieutenant F. M. Gamble DVC of Kyneton, Vic, and 402326 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) C. E. Edmondson of Wodonga, Vic, both members of a RAF Mus
