NWA0299
Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
- ID number
- NWA0299
- Object type
- Black & white
- Place made
- Australia: Northern Territory
- Date made
- 4 May 1943
- Physical description
- Black & white
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Leaning against the front end of a Jeep are 260968 Squadron Leader Leslie Roy Dawson (left), late of Headquarters, RAAF (NEI) Melbourne, and Lieutenant Colonel B S Fiedeldij (right), of the Dutch Army, Netherlands East Indies (NEI). They are having a discussion on the base of the composite 18 Squadron (NEI), RAAF which is equipped with Dutch B-25 Mitchell bombers. Squadron Leader Dawson was accidentally killed on 7 September, 1944 while on operations off Cairns, Queensland. He is buried in the Cairns cemetery.
