The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal CE Kay (2nd from left) shaking hands with Commander Kent, Aide de Camp to Rear Admiral GJ Dufek, while in the background, Rear Admiral GJ Dufek is meeting the Wigram Station Commander, Group Captain FR Dix (far left) at Harewood airport.
This is the occasion of the departure of the Rear Admiral on the first aircraft to Antarctica for the Operation Deep Freeze season 1956 - 57.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal CE Kay shaking hands with Rear Admiral GJ Dufek. Wigram Station Commander, Group Captain FR Dix (far left) and Commander Kent, Aide de Camp to Rear Admiral GJ Dufek (right), at Harewood airport.
This is the occasion of the departure of the Rear Admiral on the first aircraft to Antarctica for the Operation Deep Freeze season 1956 - 57.
L-R: Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal CE Kay, Wigram Station Commander, Group Captain FR Dix, Rear Admiral GJ Dufek, Commander Kent, Rear Admiral Dufek's Aide de Camp, at Harewood airport.
This is the occasion of the departure of the Rear Admiral on the first aircraft to Antarctica for the Operation Deep Freeze season 1956 - 57.
Cyril Kent GM (centre) with Leading Aircraftman PF Johnson and Leading Aircraftman LM Gemmell (right) in the Warrant Officers and Senior NCOs mess at RNZAF Base Ohakea.
The Ohakea Unit History, October 1986, reads "A small ceremony was held in the Warrant Officers and Senior Non Commissioned Officers Mess on 15 October to present Mr Cyril Kent (recipient of the George Medal) with his newly refurbished medals. Mr Kent's medals were at first thought lost after a fire in his home in Tangimoana, but two firemen from Base, after an extensive search through the rubble, found the medals and they were sent to Wellington for refurbishing and mounting." These medals are now held in the Air Force Museum collection.
