Image from the Leonard Adolphus Rayner DFC personal album.
Group. No. 18 Squadron personnel on the wings of a Kittyhawk at Ondonga, New Georgia, Solomon islands.
Label on the album page reads "No. 18 (F) Squadron R.N.Z.A.F. | Ondongo [sic] - New Georgia - Solomon Islands"
Handwritten on the reverse " L to R Sgt Chapman, P/O McBride (I.O.), S/L JA Oldfield (O.C.), [obscured], [obscured], Sgt Hough, Sgt Nagel, F/O Hoskin, F/O Souter, Sgt King...[obscured], F/O Walker, P/O Bremner, P/O Williams, F/O Highet, F/Sgt mac...[obscured], F/O Rishworth, F/L Balfour, F/O Archibald (standing in front). Absent: F/L Bertram, F/O Lumsden, P/O Scannell [all returned to N.Z. for sickness], F/O Hutton, Sgt Hill [both killed]."
NB. Some names removed by trimming the print for mounting in the album.