IMAGE
YMCA secretaries photographed on Crete prior to the blitz
- Date
- [1941]
- By
- Ledgerwood, John Herbert, 1908-1959
- Reference
- DA-01211-F
- Description
Young Men's Christian Association secretaries photographed on Crete prior to the blitz. These workers had been in Greece with NZ troops. Identified as: John Ledgerwood (leader of the party), Ian McIvor, 'Snowy' G Riddell, Jack Beaven, 'Snowy' Gordon Watson, Don Hunter. The first two and the last are stated to have been taken POW in Crete. In the front row are two Cypriots (an interpreter and a lorry driver) and W Greive, batman to Ernie Long who failed to escape from Greece. Taken by an unidentified photographer.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative
Processing information: John Ledgerwood added as subject, November 2022.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 official negatives - DA Series
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Cellulosic film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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