No.1 SQUADRON RAF (PART TWO) - PILOTS' PORTRAITS

Another post, another "colourised" photograph of No.1 Squadron, RAF in France. Members of the Squadron examine their first war trophy, a machine gun salvaged from a Dornier Do17 shot down by P/O Peter "Boy" Mould on 31st October 1939:

L to R : F/O Paul Richey, Squadron Leader Patrick J.H. "the Bull" Halahan,
Flt. Sgt. "Darkie" Clowes, Flt. Lt. Peter "Johnny" Walker.

Colourised - Walker with pipe, Clowes with cigarette, Halahan with German machine gun.

And some portraits waiting to be colourised:

F/O Paul Richey

F/O John Ignatius "Killy" Kilmartin

F/O M.H. "Hilly" Brown

F/O Billy Drake

F/O Leslie Clisby RAAF

F/O Peter "Boy" Mould

P/O P.V. Boot

"The Bull" - Squadron Leader Patrick J.H. Halahan

During the "Phoney War", the Tatler's famous cartoonist, Mel,
produced these caricatures of No.1 Squadron personnel.
Norman Frank's "No.1 in War and Peace" says of the result:
"...All the 'famous' were duly drawn - Halahan, Walker, Hanks, Mould,
Richey, Kilmartin, Clisby, Drake, Soper, Lewis - even J.C. Roberts,
the Adjutant, and Brown, the Medical Officer. Those not sketched obviously
had not become famous enough - Stratton, Palmer, Matthews, Berry, Clowes,
Albonico - and what about Hilly Brown? Perhaps some were absent like Hilly,
who was flying the (captured) 109 from Amiens to Boscombe Down."