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Photographs of Bob Smillie and Wellington Squadron RNZAF
- Date
- [ca 1930-1941]
- Reference
- Series-6585
- Description
Contains photographs relating to Bob Smillie and the Wellington Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, with photographs mainly dating from 1937 to 1940. In addition to group portraits, photographs show time spent training at the RNZAF base at Woodbourne, Blenheim. With the exception of two group portraits by Sydney Charles Smith, photographers are unidentified.
Quantity: 16 b&w copy negative(s).
Physical Description: Copy negatives.
Processing information: Reference number changed from PAColl-5240, record description enhanced, and item records created for each copy negative on 25 September 2019. This work was done by staff as part of a project knitting together records for material of the same provenance into one finding aid.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
- Format
- 16 b&w copy negative(s), Negatives, Copy negatives.
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Group portrait of Bob Smillie and other Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel
Date: [ca 1938-1940]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178156-F
Description: Group portrait of Bob Smillie and other Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel [Wellington Squadron?] in uniform, circa 1938 to 1940. Photographer unidentified. Likely taken at the RNZAF base at Woodbourne, Blenheim. The men are both seated and standing in front of a [Blackburn Baffin?] military airplane. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Group portrait of Bob Smillie and other Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel
Date: [ca 1938-1940]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178155-F
Description: Group portrait of Bob Smillie and other Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel [Wellington Squadron?] in uniform as well as a chaplain, circa 1938 to 1940. Photographer unidentified. Likely taken at the RNZAF base at Woodbourne, Blenheim. The group is posed in front of a [Blackburn Baffin?] military aircraft. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Portrait of Bob Smillie in Royal New Zealand Air Force uniform
Date: [ca 1937-1940]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178151-F
Description: Portrait of Bob Smillie dressed in his Royal New Zealand Air Force uniform, including a coat and field service cap, circa 1937 to 1940. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Group portrait of Bob Smillie and other Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel
Date: [ca 1938-1940]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178157-F
Description: Group portrait of Bob Smillie and two other unidentified Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel in uniform, circa 1938 to 1940. Photographer unidentified. The men are all wearing heavy jackets and field service caps. Smillie is on the left and the man in the middle is possibly Lewis Francis Paul Taylor. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel with a visiting dignitary
Date: [ca 1937-1940]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178154-F
Description: Shows Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel, including Bob Smillie, on the occasion of a visit by an unidentified dignitary, circa 1937 to 1940. Possibly at the RNZAF base at Woodbourne, Blenheim. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Royal New Zealand Air Force Wellington Squadron, Blenheim
Date: 1939
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178153-F
Description: Group portrait showing the Wellington Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Airforce, 1939, at the RNZAF Base Woodbourne, Blenheim. Photographer unidentified. The group are in uniform and posed in front of a [Blackburn Baffin?] military aircraft. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Bob Smillie with a trophy
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178150-F
Description: Portrait of Bob Smillie dressed in a suit and holding a trophy, circa 1930s. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Military airplane wreck
Date: [ca 1937-1941]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178149-F
Description: Shows the wreck of a [Blackburn Baffin?] military airplane, circa 1937 to 1941. Photographer unidentified. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Bob Smillie and an unidentified member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Date: [ca 1937-1940]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178146-F
Description: Shows Bob Smillie standing and another, unidentified member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Wellington Squadron seated on a crate labelled with words including "BOMB| PRACTICE | SMOKE | AIRCRAFT", circa late 1937 to 1940. Photographer unidentified. Both men are wearing overalls and field service caps. There are a number of bomb casings sitting on top of the crate. Possibly taken at the RNZAF base at Woodbourne, Blenheim. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.
Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel with military airplane
Date: [ca 1937-1940]
From: Smillie, Doris Gean Nineham, 1904-2001: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-178147-F
Description: Shows three unidentified members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force in front of a military airplane [Blackburn Baffin?], circa 1937 to 1940. Photographer unidentified. One of the three men is standing on a ladder beside the nose of the aircraft. All three men wear overalls and field service caps. Possibly taken at the RNZAF base at Woodbourne, Blenheim. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate film copy negative.