Robert K L Gordon
Civilian
Image from Green harbor's website on the writing 69th.
The website fails to identify the camerman on the far right, however Jim Wright recalled in 1981, that Ronnie Noble also attended the combat crew training, and the cameraman depicted resembles identifiable images from Getty and IWM (09:26) of Noble
Object Number - UPL 55259 - British Newsreel cameramen, Ken Gordon, Jim Wright, Jack Ramsden, George Oswald and Ronnie Noble during USAAF combat crew training with the Writing...
Ken Gordon joined the Daily Mirror as a press photographer in 1908, in 1911 moved to Gaumont, where he began making newsreels. Later employed as a cameraman for British Pathe, Gordon undertook a week-long USAAF combat crew training course in February 1943 with the Writing 69th to prepare to film USAAF bombing missions over German occupied Europe.
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Units served with
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Other
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: British
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group The Writing 69th
- Role/Job: Cameraman
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: British
- Unit: 323rd Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron The Writing 69th Royal Air Force
- Service Numbers: 100107 (Royal Flying Corps)
- Role/Job: Cameraman
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Revisions
Biography by Network Nine News, Green harbor publications website about the Writing 69th