Southward, Keith, d 1944 :World War II aircrew photograph album

Date
[ca1920-ca1950]
By
Southward, Keith, 1921-1944
Reference
PA1-q-969
Description

Album probably compiled by Keith Southward, a New Zealand airman in World War II, showing training in New Zealand, Canada (Halifax) and England.

Opens with a group photograph of women and airmen at the ANZAC Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Panama Canal taken March 1942 on the way to Canada. Views of Halifax, airmen, and convoy which took them to Britain. Servicemen in Bounmouth, England, and views of Bournemouth. Views of London, some of its notable buildings, and bomb damage. Views of the lake district aquired on a trip taken in August 1942. Many pages of postcards, commercial photographs of cities and villages visited in England. These are interspersed with photographs of airmen and other people. There are also three pages of photographs of Oxford training aircraft, probably taken in Canada. The album ends with photographs of family and friends in England and New Zealand, including three pages of ephemera.

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Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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