• 2023-195.2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the David Hamilton Tudhope collection. No. 139 Squadron personnel at a "Squadron Party". L-R: Back; Flight Lieutenant Kerr [drinking], Flying Officer Martin, Flying Officer Cross, Flying Officer Kenny, Flight Lieutenant Buckley (Adjutant). Middle; Flight Lieutenant Tudhope (RNZAF), Flying Officer Brown, Flying Officer Button, Flight Lieutenant Green, Squadron Leader Grant. Front; Flight Lieutenant Glenn, Flight Lieutenant Robson, Pilot Officer Dunn, Flight Lieutenant Barker (RAAF), Sub Lieutenant Velinoer Hein (Dutch), Flyying Officer Griffiths, Flight Lieutenant Sanderson, Flight Lieutenant Ballauff, Flight Lieutenant Coke-Kerr (Jamaica). Dog in front: Bruce.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Tudhope
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    No. 139 Squadron
    139 Sqn
    animals
    dog
    drinking
    recreation
  • ALB1617713006
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Leonard Adolphus Rayner DFC personal album. Three No. 18 Squadron pilots enjoying a beer before flying to the forward area. Unknown location. Labelled on the album page "Awaiting out first ferry trip | 1943" Handwritten on the reverse "Jim Balfour, Len Rayner, George Bertram | Lucaville Sept 1943." NB. Unknown where Lucaville is.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Rayner
    No. 18 Squadron
    18 Sqn
    alcohol
    drinking
  • ALB902763B050
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the William Christiansen personal album collection. "No 2 Sergeants Mess. Seletar. Tiger Top". Personnel sitting around a table drinking beer. RAF Station Seletar.
    Christiansen
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Seletar
    Singapore
    recreation
    drinking
    alcohol
  • ALB902763B048
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the William Christiansen personal album collection. "No 2 Sergeants Mess. Seletar. Afternoon Tea". Personnel sitting around tables set with tea service. RAF Station Seletar.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Christiansen
    Seletar
    Singapore
    recreation
    drinking
    alcohol
  • ALB902763A038
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the William Christiansen personal album collection. "Xmas 1940. Seletar, Singapore. Warming Up For Xmas Dinner". Personnel sitting around a table drinking beer at RAF Station Seletar, Singapore.
    Christiansen
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Seletar
    Singapore
    recreation
    drinking
  • ALB902763A037
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the William Christiansen personal album collection. "Xmas 1940. Seletar, Singapore. Warming Up For Xmas Dinner". Group of personnel sitting at a long table with local workers standing behind ready to serve the food. RAF Station Seletar, Singapore.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Christiansen
    Seletar
    Singapore
    recreation
    drinking
  • ALB902763A051
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the William Christiansen personal album collection. "Seletar 1941. Tiger's". Small group of RNZAF [?] personnel drinking beer at RAF Station Seletar, Singpore.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Christiansen
    recreation
    drinking
    Tiger Beer
    Seletar
    Singapore
    alcohol
  • 2017-017.153
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. RJ Cohen (right) with two men enjoying a whisky(?). Nandi, Fiji. Names handwritten on the card mount difficult to read.
    RNZAF
    Cohen
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    recreation
    drinking
    Nandi
    Fiji
  • 2017-017.149
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Visit of the minister of Defence, Mr Dean Eyre, to RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay, Fiji. Members of the Official Party relaxing in a bar. Dean Eyre (far right), Air Commodore RJ Cohen (2nd from left). Original RNZAF negative number LbG5030-61.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Cohen
    RNZAF
    Fiji
    Lauthala Bay
    Eyre
    Women
    drinking
    recreation
  • 2017-017.122
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Air Commodore RJ Cohen (left) with Mrs Cohen and another man at an "Annual dinner dance [at] London New Zealand Cricket Club", Taggs Island, London.
    smoking
    Women
    recreation
    drinking
    London
    Cohen
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • 2017-017.120
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Air Commodore RJ Cohen (left) with another man at an "Annual dinner dance [at] London New Zealand Cricket Club", Taggs Island, London.
    recreation
    drinking
    London
    Cohen
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • 2017-017.121
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Air Commodore RJ Cohen (left) with another man at an "Annual dinner dance [at] London New Zealand Cricket Club", Taggs Island, London.
    recreation
    drinking
    London
    Cohen
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • 2017-017.109
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Personnel of No. 2 Squadron enjoying a beer on Christmas day at RNZAF Station Nelson. The Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader RJ Cohen, middle of sitting row. Handwritten on the reverse "Nelson | Xmas Day 1941".
    drinking
    Xmas
    Christmas
    2 Sqn
    No. 2 Squadron
    Nelson
    Cohen
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • WhG1732-44
    RNZAF
    Servicemen behind the bar in the Sergeant's Mess at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Whenuapai
    drinking
    recreation
  • 2021-231.54
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Louis Andreas Hoppe personal collection. LA Hoppe sitting in a row boat with a cigarette and a bottle of Scotch. Toronto, Canada. Handwritten on the reverse "This is yours truly with a good bottle of scotch and was taken on a row boat at Centre Island. For Carla".
    Hoppe
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    recreation
    sightseeing
    Toronto
    Canada
    smoking
    drinking
  • PR619
    RNZAF
    Canteen attendant serving a beer to an RNZAF enlisted man. Unknown location. See Contact magazine, August 1943, page 37.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    drinking
  • 2021-075.4
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Herbert Gordon Petrie personal collection. Informal group of soldiers drinking beer at an unknown location in North Africa. Handwritten on the reverse "This is our Depot football team on a day out, as I said in the letter, behind the trees is desert waste for miles. Hardly creditable is it. Love Bill".
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Army
    drinking
    sport
    football
    soccer
  • 2018-139.8
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Three men with wine and a birthday cake with one candle. Unknown location in Fiji. See 2018-139.7 for a similar print with two of these people in it.
    Christie
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Fiji
    drinking
    food
    recreation
  • 2018-139.7
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Three men with wine and a birthday cake with one candle. Unknown location in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Ron Tonkins, Les Dickson, Morry Jacombi[?]. Docks Son's Birthday, his first."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Christie
    Fiji
    drinking
    food
    recreation
  • 2018-139.19
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Informal group of servicemen gathered around a birthday cake. Unknown location, believed to be in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Not in this. A birthday party for one of the boys. See Bob Shea & his hair. Speed just behind him. 1/2 this gang are further North."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Christie
    Fiji
    Food
    drinking
  • 2018-139.15
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Group of servicemen 'raise a glass' around a dinner table. Unknown location in Fiji. Names handwritten on the reverse in no particular order "Bob Christie, Gil Parker, M[?]D Dacombe, Doug Clark, Ian McGowan, Les Dickson, Ron Tonkins, Artie Angus, Roy Bell."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Christie
    Fiji
    food
    drinking
  • 2018-139.16
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Group of servicemen having a cup of tea while four local waiters stand by. Unknown location in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Bob Christie, Doug Clark."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Christie
    drinking
    Fiji
  • 2018-139.14
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Servicemen seated at the table during a dining in. Unknown location in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Hangar dinner for which I was in hospital."
    Christie
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Fiji
    food
    drinking
  • 2018-139.12
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Airmen and soldiers having a cup of tea. Unknown location in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Bob Christie 2nd from left in Fiji during World War II."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Christie
    drinking
    food
    Fiji
    Army
  • 2018-139.13
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Robert Arnold Christie personal collection. Servicemen seated at the table during a dining in. Unknown location in Fiji. Handwritten on the reverse "Hangar dinner for which I was in hospital."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Christie
    Fiji
    food
    drinking