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Title
Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs from Qantas at war, 1934-1945
Call number
PXA 1063/106-141
Level of description
item
Date

1934-1945
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
447041
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
36 photographs - silver gelatin and copy photoprints - 19.3 x 26.4 cm. or smaller
Scope and Content
106. Short Empire S.23 flying boat Corio VH-ABD taking off / Qantas
107. DH 86 crash, Barsdale near Longreach, 15 Nov 1934
108. Duke of Gloucester with A.E. Rudder, Capt. L.J. Brain and Fysh at Australia's first overseas air service with a DH 61 Giant Moth Diana VH-UJC, Archerfield, 10 Dec 1934 / Qantas
109. Imperial Airways Handley Page HP42 G-AAXC Heracles leaving London, 1935 / Qantas (acknowledge "The Aeroplane")
110. First Qantas Empire Airways board meeting, Sydney, 17 July 1938 - l to r, H.H. Harman (Sect.), F.E. Loxton, Fergus McMaster (Chair), A.E. Rudder (Vice-Chair), F.J. Smith, Fysh (Managing Director), (W.A. Watt absent) / Russell Roberts
111. DH 86 RMA Canberra refuels with Shell, Longreach
112. S.A. Dismore, Secretary of Imperial Airways and H.H. Harman, Secretary of QEA
113. Ashore from the Short Singapore III survey flying-boat, Roper River: Brackley and McComb in rubber dinghy / H.Fysh
114. Hempel, Riccard, McComb and Elder at Karumba, Norman River / H.Fysh
115. First official passenger, Lady Louis Mountbatten, with Capt. R.B. Hussey / Qantas
116. Hempel, Riccard and Brackley in rowing boat, Bowen / H.Fysh

117. Empire flying boat promenade deck / Qantas
118. QEA Empire flying boat in RAAF battle-dress (A18-10)
119. Tasman Empire Airways Board, 1941 - l to r, T.A. Barrow, A.E. Rudder (Vice-Chair), Brigadier N.S. Falla (Chair), C.G. White, Fysh, Sir Fergus McMaster / Rob Hillier
120. TEAL flying boat Aotearoa ZK-AMA over Auckland / Stewart & White Ltd.
121. Crew who ferried first Catalina USA-Australia for the RAAF - l to r, Flt Engr D. Wright, Capt L.J. Brain, W/O Bemrose, Capt G.U. Allan, W/O Richmond, Capt P.G. Taylor / Qantas
122. Major Brackley and Timor ponies, Koepang / H.Fysh
123. Empire flying boat Cassiopeia G-ADUX landing, Dili, 1941 / Qantas
124. Bombed ships burn, Darwin Harbour / Dept. Information
125. Flying Fortress destroyed by incendiaries, Broome raid, Mar 1942
126. Rescuing VH-USC and another DH 86, Mt Hagen airstrip / Qantas
127. QEA Empire wartime air routes, map in Fysh's office prior to his trip to England, June 1945 - l to r, Capt. W.H. Crowther, A.E. Rudder, Fysh, Capt. H.B. Hussey / Richard McKinney

128. Catalina over the sea, Perth-Ceylon / Qantas
129. Certificate awarded to H.Fysh "Secret Order of the Double Sunrise" for passengers who flew the Qantas Indian Ocean wartime route from Perth-Colombo, airborne for more than 24 hours (longest scheduled civil airline flight, 3513 miles in unarmed Lend Lease Catalinas in complete radio silence, the planes sunk post-war off Rottnest Island)
130. Lord Knollys, Chair of BOAC, 2nd from right, visits; Campbell Orde, Chief Technical Officer, BOAC, 2nd from left
131. Loading wounded onto flying boat Camilla, Port Moresby / Qantas
132. Visitors to New Guinea - Arthur Drakeford (Minister for Air), F. Gullick (private secretary) and A.B. Corbett (Director-General of Civil Aviation) talk with Papuan natives Francis and Michael / Dept. of Information
133. Fysh watching unloading of ammunition and armour plate from Qantas Lodestar VH-CAA in US Air Force livery, Dobodura Airstrip / Qantas
134. Australian wounded about to embark for Moresby on Qantas Lockheed Lodestar operated for US Army, Popondetta, 1 Dec 1942 / Qantas
135. Near miss - two Qantas Lodestars operated for US Army, Pt Moresby / H.Fysh
136. QEA work on a USAF Liberator, Archerfield, 24 Apr 1943 / Qantas
137. Woman in wartime works on Coriolanus, Rose Bay, 1944 / Rob Hillier
138. Lord Reith arrives on the Commando, 1945 - l to r, Sir E. Herbert (Director-General British Postal & Telegraph Censorship Dept.), Sir S. Angwin (Assistant Director-General British Post Office), John J.M. Buckley (British War Cabinet Secretariat), Lord Reith (Commissioenr for Works and Planning), Fysh, L.V. Lewis (British Post Office)

139. Coriolanus rescue - native canoe reconnoitres the flying-boat
140. Wounded from crashed Flying Fortress alongside
141. Capt. R.B. Tapp, ccommander of the first Lancastrian mail plane deleivered in Australia, L. N/O F.E. Sander, R.G. Williams (Senior Service Engineer), Mascot, 17 Apr 1945 / Richard McKinney
System of arrangement
Photographs in order of publication in Qantas at war
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Contents list devised from Qantas at war and the reverse of the photographs
PXA 1063/137 -- for another photograph in this series, see: An Eye for Photography / Alan Davies. Victoria: Miegunyah Press, 2004 (p.162) - Woman war worker, 1944 (PXE 649 v.6/5)
Creator/Author/Artist
Australia. Dept. of Information
Fysh, Hudson, Sir, 1895-1974
Hillier, Rob, 1913-1991
McKinney, Richard
Qantas Empire Airways
Roberts, Russell
Stewart & White Ltd.
Name
Aotearoa (seaplane)
Australia. Royal Australian Air Force
Brain, Lester Joseph, 1903-1980
Cassiopeia (seaplane)
Corbett, Arthur Brownlow
Corio (seaplane)
Coriolanus (seaplane)
Dismore, S. A.
Drakeford, Arthur Samuel
Falla, N. S.
Fysh, Hudson, Sir, 1895-1974
Harman, George
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974
Heracles (biplane)
Hussey, Bert
Imperial Airways
McMaster, Fergus
Mountbatten, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess, 1901-1960
Qantas at war (book)
Qantas Empire Airways
RMA Canberra (biplane)
Rudder, A. E.
Shell Australia
Tasman Empire Airways
Taylor, P. G. (Patrick Gordon), Sir, 1896-1966
United States. Air Force
World War (1939-1945)
Subject
Adult Females
Adult Males
children
Topic
aeronautics
aeroplanes
air accidents
airports
aviators
passengers
portraits
royal visits
Place
Auckland (N.Z.)
Dili (Timor)
Longreach (Qld.)
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