Trist family, including Les (Dexter) Trist in New Guinea, ca. 1900-1968

PXE 1363
ML 1274

fonds

ca. 1900-1968

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs, Drawings

914046

60 photographs - gelatin silver - 17.5 x 27.2 cm or smaller
2 photographic prints (postcards) - 8.7 x 13.7 cm and 8.9 x 13.9 cm
3 drawings - pencil - approx. 20.3 x 30.5 cm or smaller
2 textual records - typescript
6 albums (approx. 1043 photographs)
1 photograph - approx. 10.5 x 7 cm in wooden oval frame approx. 23 x 16.7 cm

Frank Mumford Trist was a playwright and president of P.E.N. His wife Margaret Trist (nee Lucas) (1914-1986) was a well known author. They had two children, Leslie Joseph Trist and Naelo Dorothy Trist. Frank's brother, Leslie Joseph 'Dexter' Trist, was a pilot and pioneered flights to the New Guinea gold fields. He died in a plane crash in the jungles of New Guinea in 1931.

References:
Library correspondence file and Austlit. Australian Literature Resource. http://0-austlit.edu.au.library.sl.nsw.gov.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A(c%5d (accessed 3 Dec., 2012)

PXE 1363/Box 1
3 Photo Albums (approx. 831 photographs)
1. Photographs of Frank and Les (Dexter) Trist, family and friends, including fellow pilot Frank Drayton. Includes photographs of places around Sydney, Royal National Park, Coogee Beach, Stanwell Park and Deniliquin (Queensland), and aerial views of Sydney. Some photographs of his time in New Guinea as a pilot (ca. 1930). Also photographs of the shipwreck of the Malabar at Long Bay in 1931. On inside cover are two pencil sketches of Eric Edmonds and Norm Rice, both drawn by Norm Rice. (approx. 223 photographs)
2. Photographs of Les (Dexter) Trist in New Guinea, some as RAAF pilot, others as pilot to the goldfields. Includes photographs of family and indigenous people of New Guinea. Also includes a photograph of Francesco de Pinedo and Ernesto Campanelli, Italian aviators, possibly 1925. (approx. 428 photographs)
3. Photographs of family, including Frank Trist and his daughter Naelo, some photographs of Yeppoon and Brisbane, ca. 1925. Photographs of Les (Dexter) Trist as a RAAF pilot in New Guinea. Also photographs of the shipwreck of the SS Malabar, 1931. (180 photographs)

PXE 1363/Box 2
3 small albums, 2 postcards and loose photographs (approx. 217 photographs)
1. Album of photographs of Les (Dexter) Trist and the scene of his crash in New Guinea, with reports and map relating to the search.
2. Album of photographs of Les (Dexter) Trist in the Pacific Islands when he was Flight Sergeant during first RAAF overseas flight in 1926. First page has a sketch of a seaplane with inscription: 'This is no fish, but a seamonster'. Includes a menu for 'Dinner to officers of the Royal Australian Air Force on the occasion of the first flight to the Pacific Islands', 1926, with autographs on back. Also a copy of the Philatelic Bulletin, Dec. 1976 (cover story: 'RAAF's first overseas flight remembered') ( 93 photographs)
3. Album with loose pages (in archival folder). Photographs of Lae aerodrome in 1930, and 'Studies of New Guinea Cannibals'. Includes photos of Les (Dexter) Trist and his plane. (56 photographs)
4. Loose photographs include Trist family members 1908-ca. 1968, portraits of Margaret Trist, Margaret with Joe Jonsson, Mrs Owen Cavenagh with relatives at home in the Macdonald Valley, gravestone of Solomon Wiseman, scene of wreck of plane that crashed under command of Flight Lieutenant Hempel and Aircraftsman Trist after hitting a tree during take off at Broadford, Vic., in 1920, Pacific Flight Seaplane loading up in Southport in 1926 and Les (Dexter) Trist at Wewak with Westland Wigeon plane, ca. 1928. (60 photographs)
5. Inlcudes two postcards, one showing the hotel in Deniliquin where Frank and Les Trist were born.

ML 1274
Portrait of Les (Dexter) Trist in frame made from wooden propellor of aeroplane, ca. 1925-1926.


Forms part of the Trist family papers, ca. 1920-ca. 1980, at MLMSS 3919

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Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
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Framed photograph dated by cataloguer after comparison with other photographs in this collection that are dated.