Keywords: Group portrait of instructors and part of the first group of 200 Australian cadets from the 1st AIF to attend a School of Aeronautics training course after they had volunteered to train as pilots for the Royal Flying Corps (RFC).jpg en Oxford England 1917-02 Formal large group portrait of instructors and part of the first group of 200 Australian cadets from the 1st AIF to attend a School of Aeronautics training course after they had volunteered to train as pilots for the Royal Flying Corps RFC The group is assembled in front of the stained glass windows of an Oxford University college in which the school was probably accommodated The cadets distinguished by white puggarees around their caps had responded to a 1916 call from the RFC for AIF officers and other ranks to apply to train as pilots Left to right back row Cedric Ernest Howell; G T W Burkett; unknown; P H Moody; Henderson; others unknown Sixth row unknown; unknown; L C Hornabrook; unknown; H P Watson; A A Kennedy; Edgar Charles Johnston; F G Sutton; unknown; unknown; A T Drinkwater; next three unknown; Roy Richards Fifth row first three unknown; Court; J Cowan; C H F Nobbs; unknown; unknown; M J Clark; next three unknown; G H Bush Fourth Row C Newbold; unknown; unknown; Cocking; Williams; next three unknown; Brewer; unknown; L J Balderson; last three unknown Third row first three unknown; Ayrton; McKenzie; R W or B Heath; unknown; Kenneth Willie Payne; Harcourt Richardson; Finlay; A E Palfreyman; unknown; Tinney; J H C Nixon Second row unknown sergeant; Francis Stewart Briggs; B James; unknown; Powell; Powell; Elliott; E A or G O Newton; Cur Kerr Curr ; Charles Kingsford Smith; Mackay; Halford; C G Fenton; G H Bush; unknown Front row Guy N Moore; C W B Martin; unknown instructors; R J Brownell; unknown Australian War Memorial ID P00864 001 http //www awm gov au/collection/P00864 001/ Original print held in AWM Archive Store Donor K Payne 2014-07-23 20 10 34 Australian War Memorial Royal Flying Corps Custom license marker 2014 07 23 PD-Australia Uploaded with UploadWizard Aviators from Australia |