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English: Studio portrait of Flight Lieutenant William Ellis Newton VC. Newton was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for his extraordinary courage during ten months' operational flying with No. 22 Squadron RAAF which was equipped with Boston bomber aircraft. He was particularly cited for his actions on 16 March 1943 which included repeated raids on Salamaua, New Guinea. Newton was shot down over Salamaua Isthmus, New Guinea, and was executed by being beheaded at Salamaua by the Japanese on 29 March 1943. (Original print held in AWM Archive Store) (Donor A. Ronfeldt) |
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circa 1942 date QS:P,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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