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Thornhill Southern Rhodesia 1948

Formal photograph of 20 aircrew of No 5 Flying Training School, arranged in four rows. Captioned 'Thornhill Southern Rhodesia 1948'. Corrugated iron structure and hedge in background.

Tags: aircrew; training

Thornhill

Thrree small photographs, first shows group of individuals crowding around a wireless set, captioned 'VJ Day Thornhill'.
Second showing Askari bugler, captioned ' 'Lights out' Askari guard Thornhill'.
Third showing Hurricane on the ground…

Tags: Hurricane

Thornhill

Photograph of Brian Powell and Geoff, sitting on the ground, single story barrack blocks in background, captioned 'Brian Powell and self Thornhill Gwelo'.

Tags: training

Thornhill

Four photographs, first captioned 'Self in MkIII Harvard.
Second captioned 'Elephant from 500ft Nr Shamva.
Third, full length standing on road, trees in background, captioned 'Brian Powell West side of airfield Thornhill.
Fourth, full length…

Tags: animal; Harvard; training

Thomas Other Prickett’s pilots flying log book. Two

Pilots flying log book two for Thomas Other Prickett, covering the period from 2 May 1940 to 18 June 1944. Detailing his flying training, instructor duties, operations flown and staff duties with the RAF Delegation to the USA. He was stationed at RAF…

The Victoria Falls Hotel

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.

The Victoria Falls Hotel

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…

The Victoria Falls Bridge

Looking up the second gorge towards the bridge.

The Victoria Fall gorges

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

The swimming pool at the Victoria Falls Hotel

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…

The cook

A man standing over a cooking pot holding a long handle. A man in desert uniform can be seen sitting on a dead bench to one side. They are in scrubland with trees around. On the reserve 'The native cook who came with us on the "bash" '.

The bundu

A view of open scrubland with flowers and shrubs. A rough road crosses the landscape. On the reverse 'The is picture was taken from the back of the lorry, when driving over the Bundu before reaching the camping site'.

The barracks

Two rows barracks with a short joining barrack around an open space with furled canvas fronts, inside of which are rows of camp beds. Telegraph wires and poles pass above the barracks with trees in the background. There are three men standing in the…

Tags: aircrew; military living conditions; training

Ten men in swimming trunks

Ten men in swimming trunks. Eight men standing in front with arms round each other shoulders. Two other men stand behind. In the background a swimming pool and single storey buildings. On the reverse of the b/w photograph 'Before we broke up, two…

Tags: training

Telegram to parents

Telegram reporting message from senior British officer Stalag Luft 3 on behalf of Donald Baker that there was no truth in any information of his death and he was alive. Sent by Red Cross Society, Salisbury.

Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3