The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal WH Merton CB OBE (middle) and one of the organisers of the London to Christchurch Air Race, Hume Christie (right) speaking with another man at the Royal New Zealand Aero Club air pageant at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published. This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal WH Merton CB OBE (middle) and one of the organisers of the London to Christchurch Air Race, Hume Christie (right) speaking with another man at the Royal New Zealand Aero Club air pageant at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published. This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).

One of the organisers of the London to Christchurch Air Race, Hume Christie, making a speech at the opening of the Royal New Zealand Aero Club air pageant at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published. This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal WH Merton CB OBE (middle) and one of the organisers of the London to Christchurch Air Race, Hume Christie (right) speaking with another man at the Royal New Zealand Aero Club air pageant at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published. This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).

Portrait of Hume Douglas Christie, Canterbury Aviation Company graduate number 22. Sockburn Aerodrome.

Portrait of Flight Sergeant AS Christie, from The Weekly News issue 15 July 1942, page 20.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Informal group of servicemen play up for the camera. Unknown location in Fiji. Could this have something to do with VE celebrations? Names handwritten on the reverse in no particular order "Gil Parker, Doug Clark, Les Dickson, Roy Bell, Bill Grant, Ian McGowan, Bob Christie, Artie Angus, Ron Tonkins."

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Coconut palms silhouetted in front of clouds. Unknown location in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Tropical storm | 10-4-45"

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Three men with wine and a birthday cake with one candle. Unknown location in Fiji. See 2018-139.7 for a similar print with two of these people in it.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Three men with wine and a birthday cake with one candle. Unknown location in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Ron Tonkins, Les Dickson, Morry Jacombi[?]. Docks Son's Birthday, his first."

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Street scene with a local police officer at left. Believed to be Suva, Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Coastal beach scene. Unknown location in Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Three men in a swimming pool. Believed to be Suva, Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Local women buying fish from an Indian man. Unknown location in Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Two men on a tropical beach in Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Large group of local men drinking Kava. Unknown location in Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Local men performing a traditional dance. Unknown location in Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Large group of personnel watching a movie film at an out door cinema. Believed to be Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. RNZAF Chevrolet truck crashed into a tree with a serviceman speaking to a local policeman. Unknown location in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Crash V.E. night."

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. High view of a beach. Unknown location in Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Beach scene and headland. Unknown location in Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Two men standing on the path in front of the N.Z. Club. Suva, Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Two men under a coconut palm tree on a beach. Unknown location in Fiji. RNZAF Jeep, local number plate 5200 (left).

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Two men under a coconut palm tree on a beach. Unknown location in Fiji.

Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Informal group of servicemen and a local man on bomb truck MT2808, in front of Sunderland NZ410(2?). RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay.