P00270.012 Accession Number: P00270.012

Description

Outdoor portrait of two members of 460 Squadron, RAAF. Identified left to right: Pilot Officer (PO) Bill Clegg [400886 William Alexander Clegg, died during operations, when his aircraft crashed in Belgium, on 13 August 1942] and PO Douglas Harditch [402862 (O21976) Douglas David Hurditch]. PO Hurditch was taken prisoner of war (POW) in June 1942 when his aircraft was shot down while on operations over Germany. In April 1945 he escaped while on a long march. He served in the RAAF until 1975, reaching the rank of Air Vice Marshall. The names in square brackets are the probable full identifications of the men.

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Accession Number
P00270.012
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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