FLIGHT LIEUTENANT HUGH TANNAHILL LAMBIE SERVICE NUMBER 401517

Hugh's Service record is available at the National Archives here by typing in his Surname, select from the drop down menu category: Air Force personnel records and Service number 401517. Part of his story is also outlined at this AWM webpage at the Australian War Memorial website. Where it says: 

"This drawing is a caricature of Flight Lieutenant Hugh Tannahill Lambie (service number 401517) in uniform with a scarf around his neck, holding a piece of smouldering toast on a plate. The caricature was drawn by H.S.W. (Bill) Fordyce in the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war (POW) camp in Poland. It is signed by Lambie in the lower right corner. Lambie was a linotype operator from Ellwood, Victoria who completed his apprenticeship with the Herald and Weekly Times and worked at their Flinders Street address. He enlisted with the Royal Australian Air Force in 1941 in Melbourne at the age of 23. Lambie served with the 450 Squadron who were nicknamed the "Desert Harassers" and were one of the most famous Royal Australian Air Force squadrons of the Second World War. He also served with the 458 Squadron and while flying with 458 Squadron on the 24th of March 1943 was listed as missing and taken as a prisoner of war. He was held by German forces in the Stalag Luft III camp in Poland where 'The Great Escape' took place. Lambie survived his imprisonment and arrived back in Australia on the 10th of September 1945 in Sydney."

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