Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Group of personnel from No. 4 Repair Depot, Espiritu Santo. L-R: Spike, Dillan, Max Ellis, Lek Cooke. Front; Ed Clarkson.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Portrait of Bill Carpenter. Unknown location.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Personnel from No. 4 Repair Depot detachment at Guadalcanal at work under a tent. See PR1256. Bill Russell, George Rainey, George Kemp, 'Toss' Torrens.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Camp scene at Guadalcanal. See PR1232. Could this be the camp of No. 4 Repair Depot Detachment to Guadalcanal?

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Cemetery of recently dug graves. Believed to be Tulagi, Guadalcanal. Most of these are believed to be US Navy personnel, however there were several New Zealand Navy personnel buried here, before all were reinterred elsewhere.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. High view of a camp among trees. Unknown location. Could this be Base Depot Workshop camp?

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. High view of a harbour with a small boat and a submarine. Unknown location.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. High view of a harbour with ships. Unknown location.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Group. No. 4 Repair Depot personnel on workshop construction duties. Espiritu Santo. L-R: Back; unknown, AJ Stanton, IP Johnson, 2x unknown, KA Baker, 2x unknown, Ministry of Works Sergeant, 5x unknown, Flight Sergeant VLV Crawshay, Southern Collidge. Front; Jim Gillingham, 3x unknown, 'Darkie' Cummerfield, unknown, Sergeant Ray Skerton, Flight Lieutenant 'Spike' Hughes, George Rainey, 2x unknown, RGW Wilkins, Corporal Norm Hughes.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Group. Personnel from No. 4 Repair Depot, Espiritu Santo.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Fuselage of No. 10 Servicing Unit, No. 1 Squadron, Ventura NZ4517 on the back of a truck after the aircraft crashed on takeoff. Base Depot Workshop Detachment at Guadalcanal. Note the Disney Jiminy Cricket nose art on the fuselage.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Unknown man working on the tip of a Kittyhawk wing, which has been removed from the aircraft. Base Depot Workshop Detachment at Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Two unknown men in a yard with detached Kittyhawk wings. Base Depot Workshop Detachment at Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Unknown man working on a detached Kittyhawk wings. Base Depot Workshop Detachment at Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Three unknown men on the starboard wing of a Ventura (believed to be NZ4517). Base Depot Workshop Detachment at Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Unknown man poses beside the port propeller of Ventura NZ4507. Base Depot Workshop Detachment at Guadalcanal. Note the nose art "Patua Te Ra" depicting a Maori warrior tying down the rising sun.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Group of men in a yard with a Kittyhawk in the background. Base Depot Workshop at Espiritu Santos.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Jeep MT2089, parked in front of a row of tents. Base Depot Workshop Detachment at Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Barrage balloon flying above a United States Navy LCT (Landing Craft Tank). Believed to be at Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Ship near an unknown beach. Believed to be Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Two men on the beach under a beached Japanese merchant ship. Believed to be Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Abandoned small boats on a beach. Believed to be Guadalcanal.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Crawshay and his wife swimming in a friend's pool during a visit to Sydney.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. "Arrival of [the] first Canberra B12 at [RAF Station] Upwood" for the RNZAF. L-R: Flight Sergeant Stokes, Mr Isherwood (English Electric staff pilot), Flight Lieutenant VLV Crawshay.

Image from the VLV Crawshay album collection. Handover of the first RNZAF Canberra at RAF Station Upwood. L-R: Flight Lieutenant AR Campbell, Mr GR Laking (Acting High Commissioner), Squadron Leader HG Moss, Air Commodore IG Morrison. Note the Ensign draped on the nose of the Canberra.