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| Keywords: No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF (AWM P10648.001).JPG Portrait of 400393 Leading Aircraftman LAC Eliot Ralph Barnfather RAAF standing in front of a signboard for Royal Australian Air Force No 8 Elementary Flying Training School 8 EFTS Narrandera NSW A barrister and solicitor from Geelong Victoria prior to enlistment LAC Barnfather trained initially at 8 EFTS before being shipped to Canada to continue his training under the Empire Air Training Scheme EATS at No 2 Air Observers' School 2AOS Edmonton Alberta He received his 'wing' as an air observer on 22 June 1941 Commissioned after his training Flying Officer FO Barnfather was a crew member of 218 Squadron RAF Stirling bomber N6071 radio call sign HA-G which was shot down near Lyne Denmark on 18 May 1942 He was fatally wounded after parachuting from the aircraft He was 27 years of age P10648 001 author 1941 PD-Australia PD-1996 Royal Australian Air Force in World War II | ||||
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