41-A-01 May 13, 1941. Enlistment Notice commonly known as the “papers”. Many conversations included the phrase “he has got his papers”.
41-A-02 May 13, 1941. Reverse side of Enlistment Notice
41-A-03 Alan between two photographer friends, Con Condor and Fletch Fletcher, with a Bristol Blenheim MK 4 at 211 Squadron. (Wadi Gazouza, Sudan, December 25, 1941)
41-A-04 Alan with Fletch and Blenheim (Wadi Gazouza, Sudan December 25, 1941)
41-A-05 Blenheim at Wadi Gazouza (Wadi Gazouza, Sudan December 1941)
41-A-06 Crossing the Equator ceremony on a troop ship.The occasion was ignored on my troopship.September 1941.
41-A-07 H.M.S.Battle Cruiser Repulse which escorted us round the Cape in September 1941. (Her voyage did not end in Cape Town but, sadly, a few months later at the bottom of the South China Sea alongside the battleship :Prince of Wales)
41-A-08 HMS Repulse at Capetown. (Capetown, South Africa September 1941)
41-A-09 Issue of Service number at R.A.F. Padgate (Warrington, Lancashire 1941)
41-A-10 Aden 1941.
41-B-01 HMT Georgic in Port Tewfik harbour, Egypt October 1941. The English renegade (nicknamed Lord “Haw Haw”) who broadcast propaganda from Germany claimed that it had been sunk which we denied. When I saw it it was obvious that the only reasonit had not sunk was that the water was too shallow.
41-B-02 “Flyer” for camp cinema at Kasfareet, Egypt October1941
41-B-03 Aerial photograph of R.A.F.Wadi Gazouza, Sudan 1941
A41-B-04 Alan in Egypt, 1941
41-B-05 Holding a pet chameleon on a stick. It was very useful picking flies off your stomach as you lay on your bed. 1941
41-B-06 Our tent on sandy scrubland. 1941
41-B-07 Rocky outcrop nearby. 1941
41-B-08 In Sinkat a little village nearby. 1941
41-B-09 Sinkat. 1941
41-B-10 Sinkat. (BO4 to B10were all taken around Wadi Gazouza 1941
41-C-01 Christmas Menu. December 1941
41-C-02 The back of the Christmas Menu. December 1941
41-C-03 A dust devil passing though camp at Wadi Gazouza, Sudan. 1941
41-C-04 Pilot’s cockpit of a Blenheim Mk. IV
41-C-05 Navigator’s station of a Blenheim Mk. IV
41-C-06 The loss of a Blenheim at Wadi Gazouza. Providentially the crew survived.
41-C-07 Medical Assessment.
41-C-08 Bristol Blenheim Mk1V at Wadi Gazuza 1941
41-C-09 Blenheim taxying at Wadi Gazuza 1941
41-C-10 Mustapha our dobhi wallah at wadi gazouza 1941
