1 The Muhammad Ali Pasha statue in the square by the same name in Alexandria, Egypt. Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman Emperor from 1805-1848 and is considered the founder of modern Egypt.
2 The cornice in Alexandria. Looks like it was taken from the Cecil Hotel
3 El Mansheya Square, Alexandria
4 Alexandria. The "Lloyd Triestino" office at left is tat of an old Italian shipping line
5 Alex cornice, looking east
6 Opposite ends of Muhammad Ali Pasha Square, note the statue
7 Opposite ends of Muhammad Ali Pasha Square, note the statue
8 RAF and SAAF flags
9 Humber 1-ton truck, looks like Don driving
10 Boston bomber SAAF Crash-landed 12 Squadron SAAF Boston. Don in 12 and 13
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16 Don left, Stanley Bay, Alexandria
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Sitting L to R Doug Bailey (killed) (he was from Florida), Les Marshall (killed), Harry Gaynor (killed), ??the oke in back....he's in several other photos, Metelerkamp (killed), Brebner, Cheese Chaplin (killed)
Standing, George O'Farrell and Barry Haynes.
18 Did Don attend a RAF OTU? 71 or 73? This looks like one of them, note the RAF types
19 HurHurricane of 80 Squadron RAF.
Hurricane mkII 1 sqdn
20 Hurricanes taking off
looks like the camp at LG 92, where 1 Sq was based in summer 1942, June to September
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27 Vossie's ops van
28 Digging a slit trench
29 Sailing on the Nile, Cairo most likely. Charlie Hewitson left, Harold Smith (killed) right.
30 Doug Bailey. Killed Nov 1942
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32 Remains of a Me 109. Note the tail struts, so it was an older E model
33 Stanley Bay, Alexandria
34 Stanley Bay, Alexandria
35 Looks like the Gezira Sporting Club in Cairo,
36 AA twin machine gun mount SA Cape Corps anti-aircraft gunners
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38 Tel Aviv, Opera House on Mugrabi Square
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42 Dizengoff square Tel Aviv
43 street off Dizengoff
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47 Tel Aviv
48 Don at left
49 Don at right with hat
50 Tel Aviv
51 Don and Cheese Chaplin
52 Tel Aviv
53 Jerusalem
54 Tel Aviv
55 1 squadron's tame 109 prop seen damaged
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58 1 sq's tame Me 109 after it was fixed up
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59-61a) was most likely El Hasseiat, possibly Msus or Agedabia. This was around the time Metelerkamp was KIA. (Spits on horison)
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61 Spit V in position for gun harmonizing
61 Gun harmonizing
62 L to R: Wing Commander Jackie Darwen, the A.O.C. AVM Arthur Tedder, Gerald Le Mesurier
63 Technical officer capt Red Connor
64 Wellington bomber
65 bf-109 and Ju-88
66 abandoned Ju 88
67 Les Marshall (killed)
68 Derek Gilson. The pups are probably Daba and Chum
69 An abandoned JG 53 Me 109, assume it's the one that 1 Sq fixed up. Probably when they found it.
70 Harry Gaynor (killed)
71 Me 110
72 Tom Phillips
73 Harold Smith at left. Bob Peel at right.
74 Peel at left, may be Don Brebner centre and Bruce Rose-Christie right.
75 1 Squadron pilots
76 1 sqdn's 109 in flight
77 1 sqdn pilots
78 Lt Lanham (killed)
79 Abandoned CR.42, Harold Smith at left and Bob Peel at right
80 Lanham right
81 mini wind sock
Hahahaha not sure what's going on here, but the two "flimsies" (4 gallon fuel cans) make me think it's a campfire or a toilet...…….
82 Barry Heyns
83 Bomb Finney, Hannes Faure
84 puppy Chum or Daba
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86 Italian trophy
88 Spitfires covered with tarpaulin
89 George O'Farrell
90 Daba & Chum
91 Christmas lunch 1942? Pops Voss on the left. Brebner in center.
Voss far left, Greeff 3rd from left in shorts, then Warwick Wikner, Johnny van Nus (in shorts), Brebner in centre in shorts, then Chees Chaplin in shorts. In front of him, looks like Red O'Connor.
92 Same occasion, this was when the officers served Christmas dinner to the enlisted men, which was an annual ritual.
93 Ginger
94 Looks like some loot from Benghazi! Note chair at right. When the squadrons were in that area they went looking for furniture etc.
95 Castel Benito airfield with abandoned Axis aircraft. That's a captured JU 52 being rebuilt, probably for the SAAF. The SAAF found 10+ Ju 52's in the desert and fixed them up and sent back to SA. SAA flew Ju52's before the war. This looks like one of them. At left are some abandoned Fiat G.50's
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97 Fiat G-50 in RAF colours
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100 RAF Beaufighters at Castel Benito LG
101 He-111 German bomber
102 Castel Benito after the Allies captured it. Left to right a Hurricane, Wellington and Lockheed Hudson/Ventura
103 SM-81 Italian bomber
104 seen Fiat CR-42, Macchi c-202
Wrecked Axis aircraft at Castel Benito. (incredibly clear photos!)
105 SM-79, Macchi C.202
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108 SAAF Boston bombers. Note how they are all lined up, that's how they managed to takeoff all at once. Obviously needed a big LG for that
109 C-47 Dakota
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Note Spitfire Mk.5 AX-H at left
113 German cemetery
114 Derek Gilson
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118 I'm guessing Benghazi after its capture
119 I'm guessing Benghazi after its capture
120 Bell P-39 Airacobra
121 1 Sq's tame 109. Far left looks awfully much like Bomb Finney. Bomb flew this aircraft 3 times in Nov 1942
122 German soldiers, probably POW's or captured photo
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127 Don at left. 2nd from right, holding tea pot is Ben Odendaal
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129 Citroen 11CV, with Johannesburg plate?? Wot? (Most likely Tunisia)
130 Wrecked Me 323 'Gigant' glider
131 Italian POW
132 B-17
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, note feathered inboard prop. Looks like it's being fixed after sustaining combat damage
133 Spitfire IX
134 Gaynor Killed in Italy 1944
Ruiter Killed in Korea
135 This was a RAF 260 Squadron Mustang III, at Trigno. Piet Venter became CO of 260 Squadron in September 1943 when Major Eric Saville, formerly of 2 SAAF squadron, was shot down by FLAK and killed near Naples. In March 1944 260 squadron was based at Cutella LG, on the Adriatic coast 5 miles south of Trigno. The squadron converted from Kittyhawks to Mustang IIIs in March 1944, the first of 239 Wing's Kittyhawk squadrons to do so. Piet Venter went to visit his SAAF 7 Wing friends at Trigno and crashed while executing a low-level go-around. Some sources say he was showing off, but that would not have endeared him to the RAF (or the SAAF, for that matter). He ended up in hospital, and became CO of RAF 92 Squadron in August 1944, flying Spitfires. He was injured again on 1 October, which ended his operational flying.
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Spitfire Mk.8
137 US P-38 Lightning fighters took part in Ploesti raids
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Lt Cecil Boyd flew AX-P on an escort mission, on return to Sinello his right undercarriage leg wouldn't come down. After trying everything in (and out of) the book, including talking to the mechanics on the ground, he was bailed out and the Spitfire crashed into the sea off Vasto, Boyd landed safely by parachute.
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141 Note aircraft name "Margaret". This is Colin Shaw's aircraft AX-B, which ended up at 53 RSU when it was in pieces. (See Hinton Brown's album no.3, photos 1-2) Probably Colin in the cockpit
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Spitfire LF IX, looks like Trigno. Unable to ID which unit, if "Polish" may be the Polish Flight in 145 Squadron
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150 Maj. Hannes Faure left, Capt Voss right. Hannes was 1 sqdn's OC in 1943-1944
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152 ID'd pilots are: Standing 2nd from left without hat is John Weaver, 5th from left Jock Tweeide, 6th Ian MacWilliam, 7th (under the cockpit canopy) Johnny Seccombe.
Kneeling at centre with beret is Sam Schneider (who was shot down and joined the partisans and was KIA fighting with them), kneeling far right is Derek Gilson.
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