Image from the Vivian Leonard Victor Crawshay personal collection. Gordon K4002 (later NZ612), from No. 1 Service Flying Training School, after overshooting and ending up in a ditch. RNZAF Station Wigram. Handwritten on the reverse "Fairey Gordon incident Wigram 1939."

Image from the Vivian Leonard Victor Crawshay personal collection. Group. Technical Wing personnel. RNZAF Station Wigram. Handwritten on the reverse "Wigram Technical Wing 1939/40." NB. Original is in two pieces, digitally joined for this file.

Image from the Vivian Leonard Victor Crawshay personal collection. Informal group of trainees at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. Handwritten on the reverse "Mechanics course Hobsonville 1939."

Image from the Vivian Leonard Victor Crawshay personal collection. Group of mechanics with an engine and propeller on a stand in a hangar at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. Names handwritten on the reverse: "Jim Grant, Slip Carr, Lance Pearson, Don Stark, ?." and "Mechanics course 1939 Hobsinville."

Image from the Vivian Leonard Victor Crawshay personal collection. Walrus L2222, P9A, the reserve aircraft for HMS Leander, entering the water at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. This aircraft was later renumbered NZ151. Handwritten on the reverse "Walrus Hobsonville 1939."

Image from the Vivian Leonard Victor Crawshay personal collection. Athletes competing in a running race at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. Handwritten on the reverse "100 yds Race Hobsonville 1939."

Studio head and shoulders portrait of Leading Aircraftman (later Flying Officer) Ernest Vernon Sage, NZ415639. Pilot with No. 550 Squadron from March 1944 and failed to return from a mission on 10 May 1944.

Informal portrait of Leading Aircraftman (later Sergeant) Wilton McBride Sage, NZ415370. Pilot with No. 165 Squadron October 1942 and and died in a flying accident on 24 December 1942.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. 250 pound bombs fitted to the wing of a Baffin. RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Unloading 250 pound bombs by crane from the bomb scow at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Personnel unloading 250 pound bombs from the back of a truck at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Personnel unloading 250 pound bombs from the back of a truck at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Portrait of Flight Sergeant JR Burke, 70500. Unknown location.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Hawker Osprey K2782, '287', taking off from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. Unknown location. Original print from 'The Aeroplane'.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Full length informal portrait of (later Warrant Officer) JR Burke, at his uncle's farm at Kimbolton, New Zealand.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Fitters and riggers preparing a Baffin for flight. One on the ground passing a parachute to another in the rear cockpit. RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. "The Bomb Scow" near RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Side view Ford V8 fire tender MT10 at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. View inside No. 2 hangar, showing Baffin K4001 undergoing repairs. RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Soldiers standing in front of a captured German Fieseler Storch. Unknown location in North Africa.

Image from the John Reginald Burke personal collection. Soldiers examining the burnt remains of a Tomahawk in Libya, North Africa.

Image from the James Patrick Sinclair personal collection. No. 2 Squadron crew standing beside their Ventura NZ4631 after the last operation by the RNZAF in World War Two. Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. Handwritten on the original album page "Taken with a K20 aerial camera at 1155 hours on August 12th, 1945, after No. 2 Squadron's last attack on Rabaul. Thirteen aircraft of the Squadron participated in the raid, which was possibly one of the last air-strikes of World War Two. Each aircraft dropped eight 500 pound general purpose bombs. Just as we left the aircraft the squadron Intelligence Officer skidded to a halt in his Jeep, grabbed the camera and said "Hold it you guys - the Japs are talking surrender!" Hostilities ceased for us that day."

Image from the James Patrick Sinclair personal collection. Air to air view of a formation of No. 2 Squadron Venturas on "our last strike on Rabaul 12.8.45". Flying from Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. See also 2025-099.1

Group. Pilots course 27B, No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School, RNZAF Station Harewood. L-R: Back; KH Anstice, T Cosson, SM Tietjens, JD Woods, KC Loe, DE MacAvoy, G Strachan, CF Jacobsen, AC Lynch, SH Taylor, Whelan, EG Little. 3rd row; LA Barr, E Hewitt, SF Gillett, JS Gibson, ET Townsend, JE Matthews, ML Holland, JR Marwick, LA Martyn, C Rowlands, Marr, MR Langdale-Hunt, FA Brittain, BP Horrobin, T Caddie. 2nd row; P Cowie, JR Bailey, EBR Claridge, MJ Corich, RK Hansen, JRG Anderson, DM Dawe, C McInnes, RM Naysmith, JE Dornbusch, A Black, Eagles, TE Browne, LF Brosnahan, GWL Fairhall, WF Morice, TB Brierley, HW Beavis. Front; HC Schofield, DC Robbins, CG Parker, RW Buddle, JJ Robinson, WGP Heard, RG Dandy, EHJ Wilson, WB Philpott, R Wood, ES Wilkinson, JH Kay, A Carmichael.

Group. Half of pilots course 27B, No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School, RNZAF Station Harewood. See GisG836-P100 for the whole course, named.