AWM caption: "1940-09-04. Left to right :
<ul><li>Group Captain W. Garing, D.F.C.</li>
<li>Air Commodore <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lukis" class="extiw" title="en:Frank Lukis">F.W.F. Lukis, O.B.E.</a></li>
<li>Group Captain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Henry_Cobby" class="extiw" title="en:Arthur Henry Cobby">A.H. Cobby, D.S.O., D.F.C. and two bars</a></li></ul>
Lukis is retiring from A.O.C., N.E.A., Cobby is succeeding him. Cobby is famous for having shot down 33 enemy planes and 13 balloons in the last war. Townsville. (Negative by Anderson)."<br>N.B. Given date is incorrect according to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/histories/26/chapters/28.pdf"><i> Australia in the War of 1939–1945: Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942</i>, p.588</a> which states that Lukis handed over to Cobby on 25 August 1942.
Anderson
AWM date: 4 September 1940 (? - see Description)
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