The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Ballarat, NSW. November 1942. Studio portrait of Aircraftman 2 (later Flight Sergeant) Mervyn Fairclough RAAF of Moora WA while training at Ballarat. Flt Sgt Fairclough of No. 51 Squadron, was shot down following a bombing run over Tergnier France. He was hidden by the Resistance prior to being captured near Beauvais. He was taken to Fresnes prison, Paris, after being captured by the Gestapo and later taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, where he spent approximately six weeks before being transferred to a Prisoner of War (POW) Camp, with other Allied airmen. (Donor E. Fairclough)
Portrait of Sergeant (Sgt) Les Whellum RAAF, wireless operator with No. 102 (Halifax) Squadron. Sgt Whellum was shot down on 28 June 1944 near Beauvais, France. He was hidden by the Resistance prior t
Portrait of 432355 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) James (Jim) P. Gwilliam RAAF, No. 78 (Halifax) Squadron RAF air gunner, of Bathurst, NSW. Flt Sgt Gwilliam was shot down on 22 June 1944 en route to a bomb
c. 1941. Portrait of Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Keith Mills RAAF, navigator of No. 78 (Halifax) Squadron RAF. After being shot down on 21 June 1944 while on a mission to bomb Laon in northern France, F
Portrait of Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) James (Jim) P. Gwilliam RAAF, air gunner, of Bathust, NSW, and Flt Sgt Eric L. Johnston RAAF, both of No. 78 (Halifax) Squadron. Flt Sgt Gwilliam and Flt Sgt John
Montreal, Canada. c. 1941. Informal portrait of Sergeant Kevin Light RAAF, navigator, standing in a street in Montreal after completing his training at the Empire Air Training Scheme in Edmonton. Flyi
Portrait of Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Phillip (Phil) J. Lamason DFC and Bar, Royal New Zealand Air Force, a pilot with No. 15 (Lancaster) Squadron. Sqn Ldr Lamason was hidden by the French Resistance
