Group. Air Force Museum of New Zealand Trust Board.
L-R: Back; Air Commodore (Ret.) Ian Mower, Peter Townsend, Craig Walker, Cr Mark Peters.
Front; Eloise Wallace, Air Commodore DJ Hunt, Air Vice Marshal (Ret.) Peter Adamson, Air Marshal (Ret.) Kevin Short, Air Commodore (Ret.) Dick Newlands.
Image from the Leigh Jennifer Leslie personal collection.
Side view of Harvard NZ1099. Unknown location.
Handwritten in the print border "Grin of the month.... / Sqn Ldr Dave Reynish" [in the back seat?]
Image from the Leigh Jennifer Leslie personal collection.
Civilian Air Traffic Controller, believed to be Chris Carmody, at work in the Control Tower at RNZAF Base Wigram.
Image from the Leigh Jennifer Leslie personal collection.
Civilian Air Traffic Controller, Peter Lilly, at work in the Control Tower at RNZAF Base Wigram.
Image from the Leigh Jennifer Leslie personal collection.
Peter Lilly and Leigh Leslie on the balcony of their flat on Springs Road, Wigram.
VW Kombi van in foreground.
Image from the Neville Douglas Farquhar personal collection.
Contact sheet, by Garry Senior Photography. Studio portrait session of Squadron Leader ND Farquhar with parade sword. Christchurch.
Image from the Neville Douglas Farquhar personal collection.
Contact sheet, by Garry Senior Photography. Studio portrait session of Squadron Leader ND Farquhar with parade sword. Christchurch.
Image from the Albert William Conrad Gledhill personal collection.
Head stone of Flight Sergeant AWC Gledhill, pilot with No. 691 Squadron. Haycome War cemetery, Bath, England.
Image from the Albert William Conrad Gledhill personal collection.
Head stone of Flight Sergeant AWC Gledhill, pilot with No. 691 Squadron. Haycome War cemetery, Bath, England.
Group of Personnel at Hobsonville Aerodrome.
L-R: Back; Farrow(?), NA Vear, Palmer.
Middle; AG Andrews, Mayhill (RL Maynell?), unknown, AT Giles, DW Jackson, unknown, Hunter, Barton.
Front; FW Sorrell, BA Noble, LM Isitt, S Wallingford, Mahoney (J Moroney?), HH Smith.
Names from 1980-587.1
"Original Staff, Hobsonville" Group of officers and other ranks standing in front of Fairey IIIf float plane at Hobsonville Aerodrome. L-R: Warrant Officer Noble, Aircraftman Smith, Mayhill, Partlow, Vear, unknown, Giles, Bert, Russell, Barton, Hunter, unknown, Corporal Smith, Abrahams, Sorrell, G Wallingford, Leonard Isitt.
Two other copies of this image at 1991-157.10 and MUS0701638.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
GT Woodroofe's great-grand daughter, Hazel, looking at GT Woodroofe's autobiography.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
GT Woodroofe's great-grand daughter, Hazel, looking at GT Woodroofe's autobiography.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
GT Woodroofe's great-grand daughter, Hazel, looking at GT Woodroofe's autobiography.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
Air Force Museum Collections Technician, Murray McGuigan (left) looking at a pair of PoW-made shorts that were made by Andrew Holyoake's (right) father while in German captivity.
Andrew was instrumental in bringing the Woodroofe and Hardie families together.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
Helen Hardie returning the silver Tiki pendant given to her father, Ian Hardie, by GT Woodroofe before his escape from captivity.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
GT Woodroofe's daughter, Chris, helping to un-latch the silver Tiki pendant from Helen Hardie, Ian Hardie's daughter. The pendant was given to Ian Hardie by GT Woodroofe before his escape from captivity.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
Portrait of Helen Hardie wearing the silver Tiki pendant given to her father, Ian Hardie, by GT Woodroofe before his escape from captivity.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
Children of GT Woodroofe and Ian Hardie with the civilian clothes used by Woodroofe to escape from captivity.
L-R: Helen (Hardie), Chris (Woodroofe), Lindsay (Woodroofe).
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
Grand-children of GT Woodroofe with the civilian clothes he used to escape from captivity.
L-R: Roger, Paul, Rebecca, George.
First meeting of the descendants of Gordon Thomson Woodroofe and Australian soldier Ian 'Jock' Hardie, who swapped identities in a German Prisoner of War camp to enable Woodroofe to escape and return to England (the only New Zealander to do so and one of only 30 to successfully get 'home').
GT Woodroofe's children, Chris and Tony, with the civilian clothes used by their father to escape captivity.