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Top: Two men in desert uniform and half caps stand either side of a man crouched by a crocodile.
Centre left: View across a village with people standing around two corrugated roofed buildings. There is a path from the buildings to a road. On the…

Top: An open landscape with scrubland and hills. Captioned, 'The veldt'. On reverse: 'near Umtali'.
Centre left: View across scrubland and hills.
Centre right: Looking across a wooden fence to a river' Captioned: 'Limpopo River'. On reverse:…

Top: Three men and two women stand outside huts with grass roofs.
Centre left: Four people working in a field of grain.
Centre right: Two men stand with three laden donkeys. In the back ground is a village of round huts with grass roofs. Captioned.…

Top left: Rocky outcrops rise up either side of a gulley. Captioned, 'river bed dried up'.
Top right: Two stork like birds. Captioned, 'secretary bird'.
Centre: A group of three men and five children in front of buildings.
Bottom left: Men playing…

Informs him of location of his brother's grave.

Catches up with family news. Complains that he had not been in action yet. Relates tale of his journey from South Africa and subsequent travels in UK.

Informs him that his brother Laurence McNamara was now officially presumes killed in action on 17/18 December 1942.

Four small photographs, first captioned 'Sebakwe Poort [Gorge].
Second captioned 'Sebakwe River'.
Third captioned 'Rhodesia, near Umtali'.
Fourth captioned 'Boating on Zambezi'.

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Four airmen wearing tunics sitting on the bonnet and bumper of a car on the side of a road. On the reverse 'L to R, Loue, Jonny, Pedro and Ginge taken by Ken Hicks(Taff), Umtali Pass, 1943, Our car - Essex super six, Southern Rhodesia'.

Two oxen harnessed together are pulling on a pole for a rotary machine - possibly a well. An African man stands by a barrel on the left. In the background a hut and hills. On the reverse 'Untali, 1941'.

Scenic shot of mountains in the distance. A low hill in the foreground left with valley beyond. In the foreground sparse bush-land. Second photograph same as the first, on the reverse 'Umtali, Rhodesia, 1943, Christmas pass'.