About this object"Framed painting of 2 individual portraits of Alec and Brab in uniform, including hats. Alec in Air Force blue with cap and Brab in army green with slouch hat. Alec with green background and Brab with mauve background. Mounted with two oval mats cut into a cream mount board. Framed with glass and ornate gold frame. Two brass plaques attached to bottom of portraits on the frame with "412565
F/O Frank Alexander BADGERY DFC
431 Sqdn RAF WW2" and "NX58441
L/Cpl Brabazon Clarence BADGERY
2/19 Battalion AIF Died POW 9.7.1943 WW2".
MakerAnne Marie Ingham
Medium and MaterialsAcrylic on canvas
Subject and Association Description"Alec Badgery was called up in June, 1941 and after training in the Australian Air Force, went to England and was based at Croft, in Yorkshire as a pilot in Squadron 431, RAF. Alec flew Halifax bombers over Germany and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. His squadron had the biggest losses of men and planes of any squadron and on one raid, they lost over two thirds of their planes.
His younger brother, Brab, was a member of the 2/19 Australian Infantry Battalion and his letter from Malaya, 16.1.1942 described conditions there…leaking tents with a foot of mud on the floor, Japanese bombing and having to shelter in a ditch three times when writing the letter, driving an army car and a bungalow in a rubber plantation. He became a POW on the Burma-Thailand Railway, dying at Tarcanoon on 9 July,1943 of heart failure, Cholera, Beri Beri and malaria."
"Dedicated to Frank Alexander Badgery
Service: Royal Australian Air Force
Service Number: 412565
Rank: Flying Officer
Date of Birth: 21 August 1912
Place of Birth: Barellan, NSW
Date of Enlistment: 19 July 1941
Place of Enlistment: Sydney, NSW
Locality on Enlistment:
Cumnock, NSW
Next of Kin: Joan Badgery
Date of Discharge: 18 October 1945
Posting at Discharge: 29 Operational Training Unit
Roll of Honour: D.F.C
Dedicated to Brabazon Clarence Badgery
Service: 2/19 Battalion AIF WW2
Service Number: NX58441
Rank: Lance Corporal
Date of Birth: 11 October 1917
Place of Birth: Leeton, NSW
Date of Enlistment: 22 July 1941
Place of Enlistment: Paddington, NSW
Locality on Enlistment: Cumnock, NSW
Next of Kin: Frank Badgery
Date of Death: 9 July 1943
Posting at Death: HQ 27 INF BDE
POW: Yes