Image from the Maurice Raymond Blank personal collection.
Group. Flight 1a of No. 19 Pilots course at the Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Levin.
L-R: Back; AMF Alexander, CH Gunn, A Lawson, MR Blank, DF Hall, RL Jones, BP Fitzgerald, RG Cotton, JC Ensor, RJ Hawke.
Middle; GM Harrison, ND Harrison, LK Goodwin, M Jolly, VC Howes, RM Grant, WJ Birchall, AH Knewstub, AA Beer.
Front; FK Kerr, N Gardiner, Flying Officer Doug Patteson, AP Jenkins, VK Cairns.
Image from the Nisbet James Scott personal collection.
Group. Air crew trainees. Unknown location, believed to be at RNZAF Station Levin.
NB. Handwritten on the reverse is "Pilots course at Harewood..." but this can't be because he was never there.
Group. "No. 9 Wing R.N.Z.A.F. ..." at Trentham Military Camp.
NB. Image 1982-217.54 is the same group (but a different original negative) but it has a conflicting date written in the image area.
Group. "No. 9 Wing R.N.Z.A.F. ..." at Trentham Military Camp.
NB. Image 2002-247.1b is the same group (but a different original negative) but it has a conflicting date written in the image area.
Passing Out Parade of Recruit course R1/91, General Service Training School, Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Woodbourne.
Air Force Cadet TM Willocks saluting before receiving the Pat Goddard Memorial Trophy for best female recruit in Physical Education, from Woodbourne Base Commander, Group Captain J Worden MBE.
Passing Out Parade of Recruit course R1/91, General Service Training School, Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Woodbourne.
Air Force Cadet TM Willocks receiving the Pat Goddard Memorial Trophy for best female recruit in Physical Education, from Woodbourne Base Commander, Group Captain J Worden MBE.
Passing Out Parade of Recruit course R1/91, General Service Training School, Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Woodbourne.
Woodbourne Base Commander, Group Captain J Worden MBE, shaking hands with Air Force Cadet GR Davis before presenting the Hawea Shield, for the best male recruit in Physical Education.
Passing Out Parade of Recruit course R1/91, General Service Training School, Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Woodbourne.
Air Force Cadet GR Davis receiving the Hawea Shield, for best male recruit in Physical Education, from the Woodbourne Base Commander, Group Captain J Worden MBE.
Passing Out Parade of Recruit course R1/91, General Service Training School, Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Woodbourne.
Air Force Cadet GA Ruiterman saluting the Woodbourne Base Commander, Group Captain J Worden MBE, before receiving the Recruit Academic Trophy for highest aggregate of points in the academic phases of the course.
Passing Out Parade of Recruit course R1/91, General Service Training School, Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Woodbourne.
Air Force Cadet GA Ruitman receiving the Recruit Academic Trophy, for highest aggregate points in academic phases of the course, from Woodbourne Base Commander, Group Captain J Worden MBE.
Passing Out Parade of Recruit course R1/91, General Service Training School, Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Woodbourne.
Air Force Cadet receiving the Lawson Cup from Woodbourne Base Commander, Group Captain J Worden MBE.
Awarded for the best all-round recruit.