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" The Second Unfinished Random Sketch on the Crisis of Knowing...."29:10:17
Mali 1980s, UK WW2, Zimbabwe .......Dad and family stuff....
A team from Agricair Zimbabwe were sent to Mali to help control malaria in the country. These are a few pictures taken by Dad of his companions at one of the camp sites. Spraying for Malaria Mali 1980s Site Camp Spraying for Malaria ....Mali 1980s Site Camp Spraying for Malaria .....Mali 1980s Site Camp Spraying for Malaria..... Mali 1980s Site Camp Spraying for Malaria...... Mali 1980s Site Camp 1941_2_3 WW2 somewhere in the UK Air crew refitting plane. Dad's friend. Velebit, Templeton Ranch, Zimbabwe Cathy at Christmas with Husky 1965. Dyptich. Stan, Grandad, Anne, Gran. 1946_7_8...if the babe is me...then 1949? Ian, Anne & Stan...30 Edmonds Ave, Harare 1953_4 This looks like Dad in that case 1923_4 or Stan 1945_ish! Stan, Mom and Anne 1947_8ish...I still have to be born. Dad crop spraying Zimbabwe 1980's Dad doing Dad thin...
.....images with little information from Dad's collection of pictures....1940/1/2 +....entry from Log Book relating to the images of Dad and comrades in Antwerp.
Airfield Airmen Antwerp 1944 _ Three images from what appears to be the same day + detail from Log Book. Dad's Log Book 1944 _ Antwerp Antwerp 1_1944 Airmen Antwerp 2_1944 Airmen Antwerp 3_1944 Friends "Donkey" Dodd_Doug Shepard_Paddy Culligan_"Pithy" Green Airmen Dougal Preparing War Tidmarsh with Brian and Jusky Haworth
Portraits by Pete Mackenzie
"50s Carpet" Pete Mackenzie "Paper Blind" Pete Mackenzie "Cat and Plant" Pete Mackenzie
...we need to talk about Dad...........
"Teenager with Flying Machine" 1940/1 Seven out of thirteen of these men died. Dad has put across against those who never came back from whichever mission they were on. Blokes on a mound Dad Circa 1938 Four men and a flying machine....Dad on the right with light in his eyes. Report on the flying and ground training 1940 - 1941 ...assuming this is one of the planes Dad flew .....he lost his way the first time but managed the second. ....unknown folk on a wing .....and he's not in this crowd at the pub. Man and Machine 1 Man and Machine 2 ...the guys on the course Nov 1940 > January 1941. Dad was the shortest bloke there. He always remarked about the courageous Polish pilots he had as companions fighting for the freedom of Europe. A young man old before his time. ...prang ...reflecting