Image from the Leonard Adolphus Rayner DFC personal album.
Auster NZ1704 ready for a forest fire patrol flight. Rotorua.
Labelled on the album page "Fire patrol - Rotorua, N.Z."
Image from the Leonard Adolphus Rayner DFC personal album.
Flight Lieutenant LA Rayner (left) with a member of the Forest Service(?) and another serviceman, beside Auster NZ1704 at Rotorua during patrolling for forest fires.
Labelled on the album page "Fire patrol - Rotorua, N.Z."
Strikemasters on the tarmac in front of the Control Tower during No. 14 Squadron Exercise Falcons Roost 16 at Rotorua airport.
L-R: NZ6376, NZ6375, NZ6367, NZ6364.
High view of Strikemasters on the tarmac during No. 14 Squadron Exercise Falcons Roost 16 at Rotorua airport.
L-R: Back; NZ6367, NZ6364, NZ6374, NZ6373.
Front; NZ6376.
Strikemasters on the tarmac in front of the Control Tower during No. 14 Squadron Exercise Falcons Roost 16 at Rotorua airport.
L-R: NZ6376, NZ6368, NZ6369, NZ6362.
The Governor General, Sir Cyril Newall, watching a trainee during an SMA 3 test at the Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Rotorua.
SMA is presumed to be Sensory Motor Apparatus. Refer the RAF Narrative (Second Draft) Aircrew Training 1934 - 1942. See foot-note on page 538.
The Governor General, Sir Cyril Newall (right of pillar), and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal RV Goddard (left of pillar) at the Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Rotorua.
Group outside 'The Denbies Guest House'.
Air Commodore MW Buckley, second from right.
