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Top left - two men, one wearing swimming trunks, the other shirt and shorts standing either side of a local boy on a beach with trees in the background. Captioned 'Engineer (J Ormerod) a Sinhalese boy and self on beach at Negombo, Ceylon, March…

Top left - seven men, most earing shorts sitting on a low wall with sea in the background. Captioned 'At Saidia, Morocco summer 1944'.
Top right - six men swearing swimming trunks standing and sitting on a dinghy in front of the doorway of a…

Top left - view of cathedral across rooftops. Captioned 'Lagos cathedral 1941'.
Top middle - two airmen wearing khaki uniform and shirts squatting with vehicles in the background. Captioned 'with Bisley convoy at Yola, Nigeria in 1942'. Top right -…

Top left - wireless operator at station by window inside aircraft. Captioned 'In Liberator between Tripoli and Cairo, July 45'.
Top middle - Five aircrew wearing khaki uniform standing in front of the fuselage of an aircraft. Captioned 'Crew with…

Top left - dawn view over parked aircraft. Captioned 'Waiting for dawn with Maryland convoy at El Fasher, S. Sudan'.
Top middle - view from air of mountainous region. Captioned 'Jebel Simbel (Lion Hill), 9000 ft high in Sudan'.
Top right -two…

Top left - group of five airmen, three wearing khaki uniform sitting in chairs in front of a building. Captioned 'Outside mess, Jan 1941, Heliopolis, Cairo'.
Top right - flying boat airborne above a river with trees on left bank. Captioned 'BOAC…

Top left - view of buildings with rivers in the background. Captioned 'Leopoldville, capital of Belgium Congo'.
Top middle - distant view up a road of memorial with two columns. Cyclist in foreground. Captioned 'King Albert memorial at…

Top left- river with fall in centre. Captioned 'Stanley Falls at Stanleyville, Belgium Congo'.
Top middle - waterfall with man and woman standing on rock outcrop on right, other figures behind. Captioned 'Tshapo Falls on Congo river'.
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Top left - a de Havilland Dove with nose wheel in the air at entrance to a Hangar with open door. Captioned 'Coming out of the hangar at Germiston, Johannesburg'.
Top right - view from air of several mounds of mining spoil. Captioned 'Crossing the…

Top left - view from the air of a coastal city with sea in the foreground. Captioned 'Durban'.
Top right - a two storey building on the left with steps up to door. A single story building from left to right across the middle wit trees behind.…

Top left - view from the air of a desert town. Captioned 'Khartoum from the air'.
Top right - view from cockpit landing on desert runway. Captioned 'Landing on 32 runway, Wadi Halfa'.
Centre - view from the air of cliff river bank with river at…

Top left -view across airstrip with single story buildings in the distance. Captioned 'At Juba, Sudan'.
Top right - side view of de Havilland Dove airborne just above the ground with undercarriage down. Captioned 'Dove on local flight at Addis…

Top left - view up a hill to a building with three towered roofs. Captioned 'Waldhaus Dolder, Zurich Aug 46'.
Top right - view over swimming pool with building behind. Captioned 'Dolder pool, Zurich, Aug 46 (automatic wave machine in…

Top left - view of moonrise through trees. Captioned 'Moon rising over the sea'.
Top right - view of waves out to sea with coast background left. Captioned 'Surf at Sekondi'.
Bottom left - man standing in surf casting net, sunken ship on horizon.…

Top left - huts on a hill with trees. Captioned 'Takoradi RAF camp in early days 1940'.
Top right - view up at airborne aircraft with trees at bottom. Captioned 'Bombay coming in at sunset'.
Bottom left - fishing boats and huts. captioned 'Fishing…

Top left - view of buildings from veranda. Captioned 'RAF camp Takoradi'.
Top middle - distant view of aircraft high in sky with tree at bottom. Captioned 'Convoy setting out for Cairo'.
Top right - view out to sea with headland on right and…

Top left - view from cockpit window of large group of people lined up on edge of hardstanding. Two other personnel walking closer to aircraft. Huts in the background left. Captioned 'Arrival at M'Beya, Tanganyika'.
Top right - view from behind…

Top left - view from air of snow covered mountains. Captioned 'Over Alps on French-Italian frontier about 25 miles from Grenoble, Sept 46'.
Top right - view from cockpit window of mountains. Captioned 'Over the alps at 13,000 ft'.
Bottom left -…

Top left - sailing vessels on river with trees on bank behind. Captioned 'Felucca at Geziran, Cairo'.
Top middle - view of river with falls. Captioned 'Source of the Nile at Ripon Falls, Jinja, on Lake Victoria, Uganda'.
Top right - sailing vessel…

View of part of a town with residential buildings, from the air.

View of residential part of town with open countryside beyond.

Top left - view from aircraft cockpit of coastline with sea to 'right . Captioned 'Flying along the Gold Coast. Oct 47'.
Top right - rear quarter view of a Dove with a group of men looking down at objects behind the starboard wing. Captioned…

Top left - view on landing from aircraft window of airport buildings including control tower. Runway in foreground. Captioned 'Taken just as we landed at Dum-Dum aerodrome, Calcutta, March 46'.
Top right - snake charmer with snake in basket.…

Top left - view from air of river with city on far side and bridge in the centre. Captioned 'Ganges river at Cawnpore, India, March 1946'. [actually downstream from Cawnpore (Kanpur) at Allahabad (Prayagraj)]. Top right - view along the top of the…

Top left - front quarter view of a York parked on hardstanding. Captioned 'Our York at Negombo, Colombo, Ceylon Oct 45'.
Top right - view from air of coastline. Captioned 'Coast near Casablanca, Morocco, July 1945'.
Centre - Three airmen in front…