This photo captures pilots Paul McGinness and Howard Bowden Fletcher with squadron mascot Mitch in a Bristol Fighter F-2B in Palestine. The McCaughey Battleplane was named after New South Wales pastoralists Samuel and John McCaughey, who donated money for the newly formed Australian Flying Corps to purchase the plane. On 24 August 1918 near Qalqilya in Palestine, McGinness and Fletcher, along with pilots in another plane, attacked seven enemy aircraft, crashing two. McGinness would go on to co-found Qantas with Hudson Fysh.