The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 420539 Flying Officer (FO) George Martin Burcher DFC DFM, No. 10 (Halifax) Squadron RAF, standing in the snow, wearing a sheepskin vest supplied by the Australian Comforts Fund. The vest has the word Australia, along with a picture of Mickey Mouse and a RAAF logo inside a map of Australia painted on it. FO Burcher was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal on 11 February 1944 for "great skill, courage and devotion to duty" when his aircraft was hit by shrapnel setting the engine on fire, while on a bombing raid over Berlin. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 14 July 1944 for being "a most outstanding captain whose fighting qualities and personal courage have greatly inspired his crews". He returned to Australia in June 1945, taking up a staff position at Tocumwal, later flying repatriated Prisoners of War (POWs) home from Manila. (Donor G. Burcher)
Informal portrait of 420539 Flying Officer (FO) George Martin Burcher DFC DFM, No. 10 (Halifax) Squadron RAF. FO Burcher was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal on 11 February 1944 for "great skill
Informal portrait of 420539 Flying Officer (FO) George Martin Burcher DFC DFM, No. 10 (Halifax) Squadron RAF, leaning against a Halifax Mk III aircraft ZA LV863, O - Oboe. FO Burcher was awarded the D
Informal portrait of Sergeant (Sgt) Harry Wright (left) and 412218 Sgt John Gordon (later Flying Officer (FO)) Gordon of Cessnock was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) after thirty operatio
Studio portrait of 578 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Adam Howie "Curly" Brydon, No. 78 Squadron RAAF. Sqn Ldr Brydon was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) "for brave conduct in hazardous flying o
Portrait of Leith Bland, eldest son of 407519 Flying Officer (FO) Gordon Leslie Bland, wearing his father's Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) medal. FO Bland, 1 Operational Training Unit, RAAF (see P03
Portrait of 407519 Flying Officer (FO) Gordon Leslie Bland, 1 Operational Training Unit, RAAF in the cockpit of his aircraft. FO Bland of Maylands, SA enlisted on 9 November 1940 and served in the Sou
