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This picture shows 'C' Flight of No.2 Squadron, winners of the Inter Squadron Challenge Cup, September 1942.
Many thanks to Ken and Mary Brooks for sending us this picture. Arthur John Pursey, their father, is third from right on the back row.
The text on the picture reads as follows:
Royal Air Force
"C" Flight, No.2 Squadron, 6.I.T.W.
Winners of the Inter Squadron Challenge Cup, September 1942
Back Row: Missing, Missing, Missing, Boyd, Todd, Jones, Leefe, Keel, Mellery, Cason, Saxby, Wilson, Kendall, Bearcroft, Pursey, Hill, Fisher
Middle Row: Missing, Missing, Missing, Broughton, Green, Heywood, Heckler, White, Leeming, Thorne, Bale, Smith, Pearson, Austin, Whitley, Clark, Heffrey
Front Row: Missing, Missing, Missing, Kneebone, Holness, Sgt. Beaton, Sqdn/ Ldr Truman, P/O Blackmore, Jack, Gatehouse, Johnson, Clark, Thrower, Grant, Cotton
On Ground: Left three missing, right three: Robson, Duncan, Hurst