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Top left - front quarter view of a de Havilland Dove surrounded by personnel. In front a truck with men in the rear. Captioned 'Refuelling at Luluaburg Belgium Congo'.
Top right - view of clouded sky from the air. Captioned 'Looking out of…

A lone baboon sitting on grass in an open area. On the reverse 'Baboon, Victoria Falls hotel 1942'.

Two women wearing swimming costumes and two men in trunks by a swimming pool. The pool has a high wall to one side with arched entrances to a curtained area. The other sides are open onto trees. John is standing second right. On the reverse 'The 2…

Two prints of same picture of two airmen, wearing shorts and shirts standing at the foot of statue of David Livingstone with trees in the background. Ben Openshaw is on the left. On the reverse of first photograph 'Dr Livingstone I presume'.

View along the gorge with the falls partially obscured by spray.

Harry sitting on the edge of the gorge overlooking the Victoria Falls. He is wearing long woollen socks, shorts and a shirt with the sleeves rolled up showing a watch on his wrist.

Harry sitting on the edge of the gorge opposite the cascade of water.

Harry, standing with his arms crossed, on the opposite side of the gorge to the falls. The cascading water is partially obscured by the spray.

The Zambezi river running through the gorge with the Victoria Falls obscured by spray.

John looking across the gorge to the Victoria Falls. He is wearing long woollen socks, shorts and a shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He has a watch on his wrist and has a camera slung from his shoulder.

John sat in the gorge with the Zambezi river and Victoria Falls beyond.

John, holding a pipe sitting on a rock across from the Victoria Falls.

A man in short sleeved shirt and shorts standing by a tree feeding a monkey. In the background trees. On the reverse 'Pedro Walker feeding a monkey, Vic Falls, 1942'.

A man in short sleeved shirt, shorts and side cap standing in a river by the edge of a cataract. In the distance the river disappears over a fall. On the reverse 'Pedro Walker, Victoria Falls. July 1942, (Devils Cataract)'.

Two men and two women swimming in the hotel pool. On the reverse 'John in the swimming pool of the Fall Hotel John Harry and the two girls'.

A pool with a high wall to one side and open on another. There are two people in the pool with two women, wearing day dresses, standing to one side and three young men in shorts on the other side. The pool is set in gardens with trees and a lawned…

Along the forested, steep sided gorges with the Victoria falls bridge across the gorge to the left.

Looking up the second gorge towards the bridge.

The two storey hotel with a tiled roof, a portico entrance and a balustrade at first floor level. The ground floor windows have shutters and there are palm trees and a pond in the formal front garden at the front.

A panoramic view of the hotel and grounds. The hotel has two stories under a pitched tile roof. The lower half of the windows have open shutters and there are single storey buildings adjoining with am open colonnade showing doors beyond. There are…

John, standing between Harry, left with a pipe and Pat on the right. They are standing below a sign for the Victoria Falls showing them to be 2,994 feet above sea level.

Ben Openshaw (left) and an airmen by a cliff. The man in front is sitting wearing shorts, short sleeved shirt and side cap. In the background a huge waterfall.

A sign for the falls, describing its height above sea level and distances to Cape Town, Beira and Bulawayo.

A lake with small floating pontoon and launch in foreground.

Photograph of part of the Falls, captioned 'Victoria Falls'.