• OhG1013-52
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron Exercise Hardtack at Kaitaia airfield. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal DV Carnegie CB CBE AFC, inspecting the kitchen area.
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    exercise
    Hardtack
    Kaitaia
    CAS
    Chief of Air Staff
    Carnegie
    food
  • OhG1009-52
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron Exercise Hardtack at Kaitaia airfield. Airmen peeling potatoes forma meal.
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    exercise
    Hardtack
    Kaitaia
    food
  • OhG1008-52
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron Exercise Hardtack at Kaitaia airfield. Personnel having their meal outside the tents.
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    exercise
    Hardtack
    Kaitaia
    food
  • 1988-176.55
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Christmas cake. RNZAF Station Ohakea. Written in icing on the top "RNZAF Ohakea / Christmas Greetings / to the children."
    Ford
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    food
    Christmas
    Xmas
    Ohakea
  • PRS360
    RNZAF
    Airmen collecting their meal from the mess table. Rotorua. Negative envelope states "Task Force Exercise", but this is believed to be a Mechanical Transport Light Recovery Unit exercise. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published. This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).
    RNZAF
    exercise
    training
    Rotorua
    oblique
    food
  • PRS355
    RNZAF
    Airmen relaxing during a meal break near Rotorua. Negative envelope states "Task Force Exercise", but this is believed to be a Mechanical Transport Light Recovery Unit exercise. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published. This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).
    RNZAF
    exercise
    training
    Rotorua
    oblique
    food
  • PRS19a
    RNZAF
    No. 41 Squadron Navigator eating lunch at his station in a Bristol Freighter. Unknown location. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published.This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).
    B170
    Freighter
    41 Sqn
    No. 41 Squadron
    RNZAF
    cockpit
    food
  • PRS19b
    RNZAF
    No. 41 Squadron Navigator eating lunch at his station in a Bristol Freighter. Unknown location. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published.This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).
    cockpit
    RNZAF
    No. 41 Squadron
    41 Sqn
    Freighter
    B170
    food
  • PRS67
    RNZAF
    Boy Entrants peeling potatoes during the Boy Entrant School annual camp at Dip Flat in the Rainbow Valley. L-R: AD McGonagle, BG Rodger, GH Wilson, BL Hegley. This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published. This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).
    training
    BES
    Boy Entrant School
    RNZAF
    Dip Flat
    food
  • PRS69
    RNZAF
    Boy Entrant School annual camp at Dip Flat in the Rainbow Valley. Boy Entrants DR Tocker and SG Reeves (left) speaking with the camp cook, Leading Aircraftman S Gould (right). This PRS series was found without a register or other information. Some detail has been gleaned from some of the negative sleeves or where the picture has been published. This series post-dates the DM series and pre-dates the post-war PR series (beginning in 1956).
    training
    BES
    Boy Entrant School
    RNZAF
    Dip Flat
    food
    Tocker
    Reeves
    Gould
  • 1986-016.36
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the David Andrew Dunn personal collection. Airmen in the dining room celebrating Christmas. Norfolk Island. Associated document describes: "Airman's Mess. Xmas Day 1943."
    WW2
    World War Two
    Dunn
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Norfolk Island
    Christmas
    Xmas
    food
  • WhG527-42
    RNZAF
    Tables set for Christmas Dinner in No. 1 Mess at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    food
    Whenuapai
    Christmas
    Xmas
  • WhG528-42
    RNZAF
    Tables set for Christmas Dinner in No. 1 Mess at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    food
    Whenuapai
    Christmas
    Xmas
  • OhG4896-56
    RNZAF
    Combined Army and Air Force Mobile Field Hospital training exercise at Paraparaumu airport and RNZAF Station Ohakea. Cook at work in the field kitchen at Paraparaumu airport.
    RNZAF
    Army
    training
    medical
    food
    Paraparaumu
  • OhG4897-56
    RNZAF
    Combined Army and Air Force Mobile Field Hospital training exercise at Paraparaumu airport and RNZAF Station Ohakea. Outdoor cooking at the field kitchen at Paraparaumu airport.
    medical
    training
    Army
    RNZAF
    food
    Paraparaumu
  • 2019-190.109
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ewan Brooking personal collection. Members of No. 113 Squadron(?) in front of a local building. Believed to be in Burma. See also 2019-190.125
    banana
    food
    Burma
    Brooking
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    No. 113 Squadron
    113 Sqn
  • 2019-190.125
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ewan Brooking personal collection. Members of No. 113 Squadron(?) in front of a local building. Believed to be in Burma. See also 2019-190.109
    Brooking
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    banana
    food
    No. 113 Squadron
    113 Sqn
  • 2019-190.170.75
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the Ewan Brooking personal collection. Truck load of watermelons(?), viewed through the windscreen of a car. Unknown location.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Brooking
    food
  • WhG4185-53
    RNZAF
    Open Day at RNZAF Station Whenuapai. Static display of Catering food.
    RNZAF
    Open Day
    Whenuapai
    food
  • HamG1261
    RNZAF
    Dining room at RNZAF Station Hamilton.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Hamilton
    food
  • 2019-188.5
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Daryl Fell personal collection. Informal group of service men around a notice board with a menu and sport notices. Believed to be at Halavo Bay, Florida Island (now Solomon Islands). Handwritten on the reverse "The "Grata" Board again. I played in the cricket game." and "Mick Slayt."
    sport
    food
    World War Two
    WW2
    Slayt
    RNZAF
    Halavo Bay
    Florida Island
    Solomon Islands
  • HamG897
    RNZAF
    Women at a WAAF Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Hamilton.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Hamilton
    WAAF
    Women
    food
  • HamG899
    RNZAF
    Women at a WAAF Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Hamilton.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Hamilton
    WAAF
    Women
    food
  • HamG900
    RNZAF
    Women at a WAAF Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Hamilton.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Hamilton
    WAAF
    Women
    food
  • HamG901
    RNZAF
    Women at a WAAF Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Hamilton.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Hamilton
    WAAF
    Women
    food