The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal RB Bolt DFC AFC (left) presenting member of No. 15 Staff Course, Squadron Leader DW Hill (right) with some books. Command and Staff College, Whenuapai, RNZAF Base Auckland.
Two Canterbury Aviation Company student pilots (far right) with the Chief Flying Instructor Cecil Hill (second from left) and an Army Officer, in front of a Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
Passing out Parade of No. 21 Boy Entrant School course. RNZAF Station Woodbourne.
Bishop Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hulme-Moir (left) making a speech from the dais.
Station Commander, Group Captain EC Gartrell (middle) and
Boy Entrant School Commanding Officer, Wing Commander Hill (right).
Image from the Hill personal collection.
Six trainee(?) pilots and an instructor standing in front of a Gordon with its engine running. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Wigram.
Image from the Hill personal collection.
Group of men standing around the damaged port wing of a Harvard at, No. 1 Service Flying Training School, RNZAF Station Wigram.
Handwritten on the reverse "Allen 2nd from right" and "LAC Shrubsall hit tractor at NE corner of airfield."
Copy negative from the John Arthur Houlton personal collection.
Group of No. 485 Squadron pilots in front of a Spitfire with the New Zealand High Commissioner WJ Jordan at RAF Station Biggin Hill.
L-R: On wing; 3x unknown ground crew, LSM White, MG Sutherland, M Metcalfe, IPJ Maskill, JA Ainge, HS Tucker.
Standing; R Barnett, Travis (USAAF), F Transom, JA Houlton, NE Frehner, CP Ashworth (visitor), PH Gaskin, LP Griffith, MRD Hume, De la Torre (Intelligence Officer), WJ Jordan, JM Checketts (Commanding Officer), AG Malan (Station Commander), AC Deere (Wing Commander Flying), JD Rae, BE Gibbs.
This was published in Houlton's autobiography 'Spitfire Strikes. A New Zealand Fighter Pilot's Story', published 1985 by John Murray Ltd. London.
Names taken from 'An Illustrated History of the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron' by Kevin W Wells, published 1984 by Hutchinson, New Zealand.
Copy negative from the John Arthur Houlton personal collection.
No. 485 Squadron pilots in the Dispersal Hut with the New Zealand High Commissioner, WJ Jordan, at RAF Station Biggin Hill.
This was published in 'An Illustrated History of the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron' by Kevin W Wells, published 1984 by Hutchinson, New Zealand.
Image from the John Arthur Houlton personal collection.
No. 485 Squadron pilots with the New Zealand High Commissioner, WJ Jordan (5th from right) and a Spitfire at RAF Station Biggin Hill.
JA Houlton far left.
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
3/4 front view of Mosquito HR343. Unknown location, believed to be in Germany.
This is the personal aircraft of Air Marshal Sir Roderic Hill, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
Canterbury Aviation Company Chief Flying Instructor, Cecil Hill (rear seat) and (possibly) the Engineer J Mackie in the Company-built aircraft. Sockburn Aerodrome.
Image from the M Hervey personal collection.
Full length portrait of Cecil McKenzie Hill, Canterbury Aviation Company chief flying instructor, standing in front of a Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
CM Hill was killed in a flying accident, 1 February 1919.
Image from the KS Cree personal collection.
Portrait of Cecil McKenzie Hill, Canterbury Aviation Company flying instructor, Sockburn Aerodrome.
CM Hill was killed in a flying accident, 1 February 1919.
