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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Zimbabwe--Gweru"
Gold mine
View of mine buildings and a winding wheel tower. A man in a topee walks along a path towards the mine which has hills in the background. Captioned, 'Gold Mine' and 'witch doctor'.
Lake surrounded by wire fencing with a tower at one end.…
Tags: animal
Gwelo and Bulawayo
Single storey building with pitched roof and corner…
Station workshops, Moffat
A group of 61 bareheaded men in desert uniform. They are arranged in five rows outside a corrugated building. Captioned, 'Station Workshops Moffat'.
Studio portrait of a man in uniform with a woman, a girl and three boys in school…
Tags: ground crew; technical building
Inspection
A man in a suit and hat stands, with his arms folded, talking to a man in desert uniform and topee. To the right is a single storey corrugated walled building with a row of open windows from which a man watches.
A man, in suit and hat…
Tags: aircrew; technical building; training
Parade and inspection
Thirty three men in desert uniform and topees standing to attention in three rows with rifles and fixed bayonets.
Three rows of men in desert uniform and topees stand at ease. There are buildings and utility poles and wires beyond.
A man…
Tags: aircrew; mess; military service conditions; training
Guard of honour
A man in a suit by a car is saluted by men in uniform and topees next to a checkpoint with men standing to attention to one side with rifles. There are buildings to one side with a perimeter fence and utility poles beyond. Captioned, 'Sir…
Freetown Sierra Leone
View of a wooded coastline with a town behind. Captioned, 'first glimpse of Africa. 'Freetown' Sierra Leone'.
Wooded coastline with hills beyond.
Bottom left: Airmen in uniform standing on the line of a sports field. A man stands with…
Tags: sport
African travels
Top right - view of clouded sky from the air. Captioned 'Looking out of…
Tags: fuelling
Geoff Paine's pilots flying log book
Geoff Paine and Harvard
Tags: Flying Training School; Harvard; training
Harvards at Thornhill
Third, aerial view of three small towns captioned, 'Thornhill Gwelo Moffat'. Fourth, aerial view,…
Tags: aerial photograph; Harvard; training
Thornhill
Tags: training
Thornhill
Second showing Askari bugler, captioned ' 'Lights out' Askari guard Thornhill'.
Third showing Hurricane on the ground…
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Bircotes; RAF Blida; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Greenock; RAF Handforth; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kairouan; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Ten men in swimming trunks
Tags: training