No. 30 Squadron Intelligence Officer, Flying Officer T Kent (left), and Padre, Flight Lieutenant KTF Larsen sitting in a Jeep. Believed to be Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Both on board Jeep 'ACORN 13'.
Image from the Bevan Palmer personal collection.
Side view of Kittyhawk NZ3142 with two service men standing beside. No. 4 Repair Depot, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Another view, looking towards our jungle home."
Handwritten on the reverse "Camp was in jungle behind at top of hill."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and " "The Hangar"."
Handwritten on the reverse "Just an open area cut out of the jungle. 1942."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
No. 3 Squadron Hudsons on the airfield at Pallilulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Some of our kites' on the strip taken from camp entrance."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Personnel from Squadron working on the port engine of a Hudson. Pallikulo, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "Some of the boys at work??"
NB. Although this is on a page headed up "New Hebrides" the reverse of the print states Guadalcanal.
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "The 98th Highway."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "French church near Lugainville."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "A Mahogany tree, on the road from Surenda [Surunda] Bay to Fighter Strip."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "The highway past our camp. The C-B's put it through the bush in 3 days, a distance of about 2 miles."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and "The highway past our camp. The C-B's put it through the bush in 3 days, a distance of about 2 miles."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" "With the Banyan tree, the branches droop to the ground & take root , making an impenetrable barrier in the bush" and "Banyan tree."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" "With the Banyan tree, the branches droop to the ground & take root , making an impenetrable barrier in the bush" and "Banyan tree."
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
Three service men in a tent at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
L-R: DLP Tugby, Ray Martin, Clem Moore.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)"
and "In our tent." [also names]
Image from the Desmond Lloyd Percy Tugby personal album collection.
DLP Tugby and Roy Wall with a local man holding coconuts. Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Handwritten on the album page "Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides)" and Roy Wall & self about to quench a thirst."
No. 17 Squadron pilots in front of a Kittyhawk at Espiritu Santo en route to New Zealand.
L-R: Flight Lieutenant AW Buchanan, Squadron Leader PGH Newton, Flight Lieutenant BH Thomson.
No. 17 Squadron pilots in front of a Kittyhawk at Espiritu Santo en route to New Zealand.
L-R: Flight Lieutenant AW Buchanan, Squadron Leader PGH Newton, Flight Lieutenant BH Thomson.
No. 17 Squadron personnel in front of a Kittyhawk at Espiritu Santo, en route to New Zealand.
Presumed to be Squadron Leader PGH Newton at centre front row.