Keywords: No. 3 EFTS RAAF (AWM P04940.001).JPG Australia Victoria Melbourne Essendon Group portrait of RAAF officers attending No 3 Elementary Flying Training School EFTS Identified from left to right back row 403993 Donald Hamilton Thompson; four unidentified; 409252 Bruce Alexander Tait who was killed in action on 29 December 1943 when the Landcaster Bomber he was piloting crashed at Grossziehten near Berlin ; unidentified; Bill Young; Evans Second row 9245 Sydney James Jim Commons; 407932 John Hereford Portus who received the Distinguished Flying Cross DFC on 18 January 1944 ; 409257 Robert Bruce Tuff who was killed in action on 22 February 1944 over the English Channel ; unidentified; Ryan; 408932 John Lorne Seelenmeyer; four unidentified Front row Oldmeadow; 400438 William Dougal McBean; 408891 Norman Albert Augustus Smithells served as Norman Albert Turnbull ; unidentified; 409249 Freeman Rolland George Strickland; 409218 Ronald Ormond Patterson; 409223 Sergeant Douglas Robert Ramsay accidentally killed in Hamilton Vic on 8 January 1943 ; two unidentified P04940 001 1941 Not identified PD-AustraliaGov PD-1996 Australia Uncategorized 2015 January 25 |