Image from the William Christiansen personal album collection.
"Kallang 1941". A view of the main hangar at RAF Station Kallang, Singapore.
No. 67 Squadron and/or No. 243 Squadron Buffaloes parked outside.
Image from the Ronald Graham Watts personal collection.
Informal group of trainees at RNZAF Station Levin.
Handwritten on the reverse "Friends at Levin" and "Dad [RG Watts], George, Ron Shield | killed in Singapore."
Ronald Spencer Shield was killed in a runway accident while flying a No. 243 Squadron Buffalo at RAF Station Kallang, Singapore.
Acrylic painting by Ewen Brooking.
Shows No. 67 Squadron Buffalos and Chinese 'Flying Tigers' P40 Kittyhawks scrambling from RAF Station Tengah, Singapore.
Airman Sid Wells in a ground defence post on the airfield at RAF Station Kallang, Singapore.
Buffalo in the background is believed to be a No. 488 Squadron aircraft.
Group of No. 488 Squadron pilots, carrying parachutes, walking along the flight line of Buffalos at RAF Station Kallang.
L-R: Gifford, Burton, Cox, Kuhn.
Image from the W Christiansen personal album collection.
"Kallang 1941". A view of the main hangar at RAF Station Kallang, Singapore.
No. 67 Squadron and/or No. 243 Squadron Buffaloes parked outside.
No. 488 Squadron Buffalos on the flight line at RAF Station Kallang, Singapore.
Pilot in near aircraft, Buffalo AN198, is Flight Lieutenant JN Mackenzie.
Image from the Edward Leslie Sadler personal album collection. "B" just before the outbreak of war." No. 67 Squadron personnel sitting beneath Buffalo W8243 RD-B. Sergeant EL Sadler is second from the left.
No. 488 Squadron pilots shelter from the monsoon rains under the starboard wing of a Buffalo. Singapore.
L-R: Graham White, Jack Godsiff, Bunny Petit, Jack Burton, Killick, Eddie Kuhn, Wally Greenhalgh, Frank Johnston, Tony Cox, Corporal Herbert, Len Farr, Leading Aircraftman McGill-Nutt.
No. 488 Squadron pilots walking past a line-up of Buffalos, Singapore.
L-R: Pilot Officer Peter Gifford, Sergeant Jack Burton, Pilot Officer Cox, Sergeant Eddie Kuhn, Sergeant Dereck Charters.
Image from the Edward Leslie Sadler personal album collection. "B" just before the outbreak of war." No. 67 Squadron personnel sitting beneath Buffalo W8243 RD-B. Sergeant EL Sadler is second from the left.
Image from the Andrew Maguire personal album collection.
"Sgt Pilot Newman. Wellington. NZ. Went up in his Brewster Buffalo to engage [a] formation of Jap bombers. Before he reached his objective 15 Jap Nay 'O' fighter planes came out of the blue and surrounded him finally shooting him down. Great daring was shown by this brave young pilot. Much could be written of his last battle."
Wreckage of No. 243 Squadron Buffalo W8234 WP-C that was flown by Sergeant Reginald James Newman and was shot down by the Japanese on 12 January 1942, near RAF Station Kallang, Singapore.
