Group portrait of airmen from different bomber crews in No. 101 Squadron RAF sitting in a 1929 Riley open touring car named 'G for George', Lincolnshire, England, c. 1944. RAAF Flying Officer Adrian Montague, seated behind the driver, is pointing to the word 'Digger' on the bodywork. Although petrol was hard to get, and only two of the group had a driver's licence, when off duty they used 'George' to explore the English countryside and visit local pubs. Aircrew used their free time at a bomber station, when not on leave, in a thousand ways but the ‘local' was always popular. Douglas Butterworth, who flew with No. 460 Squadron RAAF, liked pub life: 'Two little pubs. Just a little village, hey. All the old codgers there playing darts; we'd play darts with them. It was good. Great little places those English pubs, ay. Friendly'. [Douglas Butterworth, interview, Australians at War Film Archive: AWM P07673.002]
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