RAAF No.8 Squadron

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From Top: Portrait of Flying Officer Ron Widmer.


Group Portrait of No 8 Squadron RAAF, “C” Flight. Front Row (L to R): Flying Officer (FO) R. Widmer; FO W. J. Hoddinott; FO J. W. Robertson; FO C. H. D. Browne; Flight Lieutenant (FLt) C. C. Williams; Squadron Leader (SLdr) P. A. Parker; FLt E. R. Bell; FO C. H. (Spud) Spurgeon; Pilot Officer (PO) S. N. Chesterman; FO J. F. Montifiore; FO K. G. Kleining; Second Row: Sergeant (Sgt) Alan Morton; Sgt Doug Adams; Sgt Tim Bethke; Sgt Neville Dunn; Sgt Fred Rollo; Sgt Lance Quail; Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Ray Stevens; LAC Mick Greene; LAC Gerry Guider; LAC Howard Ridge; Third Row: Sgt A. W. Callaghan; LAC Ron Lidster; Corporal (Cpl) Sid Cooke-Russell; John Reid; Sgt Roy Patterson; LAC Wally Stokes; LAC Fred Osborne; Sgt Alan Duxbury; Back Row: Cpl Arch Munro; LAC Harry Brown; LAC Jo Jo Wooster; LAC Vic Barelli; Flight Sergeant Bill Peat; CPL “Bushy” Attrill; LAC Wally Brown; Cpl “Trader” Horne; Cpl Don Devlin; LAC Jack Hopgood. On nominal roll but missing from photograph: LAC Noel Waugh; Cpl George Robinson; Cpl Lial Haggar. Kota Bharu Malaya April 1941.

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