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Informal portrait of 22068 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Keith Clarence Matthews, 77 Squadron RAAF, of Parkes, NSW. He enlisted in the RAAF on 18 July 1942, and trained as a fighter pilot in the Empire Air Training Scheme in Canada, before being commissioned on 9 July 1943. He was posted to the United Kingdom and while attached to 183 (Typhoon) Squadron, he was shot down over Normandy, France while strafing a level crossing, on 24 June 1944, and taken prisoner of war (POW). He spent eleven months in Stalag Luft 3 in Germany and returned home on 9 September 1945, electing to remain in the RAAF. In 1950, he was posted to 77 Squadron in Korea. On 14 February 1951, while flying a Mustang, he failed to return from a mission over enemy territory during a severe snow storm and was posted missing presumed killed, along with A5166 Warrant Officer Sinclair Sutherland Squiers, also from Parkes. He has no known grave.
Informal portrait of 22068 Aircraftman (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)) Keith Clarence Matthews, 77 Squadron RAAF, of Parkes, NSW. He enlisted in the RAAF on 18 July 1942, and trained as a fighter p
Informal portrait of 22068 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Keith Clarence Matthews, No. 77 Squadron RAAF, of Parkes, NSW. He enlisted in the RAAF on 18 July 1942, and trained as a fighter pilot in the Empi
Informal portrait of A5166 Warrant Officer (WO) Sinclair Sutherland Squiers, No. 77 Squadron RAAF, of York, WA. Squiers was called up for military service on 9 April 1942, at the age of eighteen. He s
Studio portrait of 420009 Warrant Officer (WO) Launcelot 'Pat' Harrison, 463 Squadron, of Parkes, NSW. A farmer of Parkes, NSW, he enlisted in the RAAF on 10 October 1941 in Sydney, NSW, training in V
Studio portrait of 421908 Warrant Officer (WO) William John (Bill) Cooper, RAAF, of Parkes, NSW. He was a teacher prior to enlisting in Sydney, NSW on 15 August 1941, after which he was posted to athe
Informal portrait of 408034 Marmion Wilfred "Wilfred" Carroll on a bicycle beside a hedge. He was awarded the DFC on 15 July 1943 while posted to No. 467 Squadron, and later posted to No. 460 Squadron
