Petrol Company
List of Illustrations
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List of Illustrations
Petrol Dump in the Western Desert, 1940 | NZ Army | Frontispiece |
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Trentham Camp, 1939 | J. J. Hunter collection | 16 |
Petrol Company lines ready for inspection | J. J. Hunter collection | 16 |
March past, Trentham Camp, October 1939 | J. J. Hunter collection | 16 |
D (Workshops) Section, Trentham, December 1939 | W. B. Ross collection | 16 |
Petrol Company about to embark on the Orion at Wellington | Evening Post, Wellington | 16 |
Workshops Section with the Vauxhall chassis which was used for lectures en route to the Middle East | W. B. Ross collection | 16 |
The first mail arrives at Maadi Camp | F. W. Howell | 16 |
Lionel Stubbs, Jerry Lyon and L. H. Lawton at Qasaba | G. W. Lyon collection | 32 |
Jack Plumtree, an English soldier and Ivan McCullum meet the Queen (now Queen Mother) at the Union Jack Club, London | J. S. Plumtree collection | 32 |
In Greece: a motor transport convoy on the road between Elevtherokhorion and Dholikhi | J. M. Twhigg collection | 32 |
New Zealand provost on point duty, Olympus Pass | T. A. Goodall | 32 |
Bill Ross, ‘Snowy’ Guy and ‘Hurricane’ Harrison near Elasson | W. B. Ross | 32 page xii |
Marathon Beach | A. S. Frame | 32 |
A German troop-carrier from which parachutists were dropped over the prison in Crete | W. B. Ross | 32 |
At Galatas, 20 May 1941 | W. B. Ross | 32 |
The Gaol, looking towards Galatas | —from a German publication, Kreta—Sieg Der Kühnsten | 32 |
‘The Galatas Heights’ from the Alikianou-Canea road, looking north-east | E. A. Vedova | 50 |
Civilian prisoners were used by the Germans to bring up supplies | —from a German publication, Kreta—Sieg Der Kühnsten | 50 |
Divisional Petrol Company at Helwan after evacuating Crete | J. S, Plumtree | 50 |
Crown and Anchor cloth, embroidered and autographed at Stalag VIIIB by all the Petrol Company prisoners of war taken in Crete | Lee Hill | 50 |
Company area at Helwan | 50 | |
The 5th Reinforcements arrive at Port Tewfik | NZ Army | 50 |
Workshops Section—blacksmiths' shop, Helwan, 1941 | W. B. Ross collection | 50 |
Coming through the ‘Corridor’, 1 December 1941 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 50 |
C Section men in Tobruk, 2 December 1941 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 66 |
Cookhouse at Fuka, Christmas Day, 1941 | 66 | |
General Freyberg's caravan made by 13 Section, Workshops | W. B. Ross | 66 |
‘Hori’ Perston breaks away in a rugby match at Fayid, February 1942 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 66 page xiii |
Petrol Company on the way to Syria, March 1942 | W. A. G. Waskbourn | 66 |
Workshops' cook truck stuck fast in soft sand in the Sinai Desert | W. A. G. Washbourn | 66 |
The upper reaches of the Orontes River | G. W. Lyon | 66 |
Water seller | G. W. Lyon | 66 |
Dinner-time in Syria | W. B. Ross collection | 134 |
Pulling out from Asluj, June 1942 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 134 |
Petrol Company group in the Western Desert | W. B. Ross collection | 134 |
Workshops detachment at Amiriya | W. B. Ross collection | 134 |
Mick Hall, George Ellison, Don Craig, Doug Meurk and —Hutchison | R. D. Janes | 134 |
Don Craig and Laurie Butters bedded down beside their truck | R. D. Janes | 134 |
Loading supplies | W. B. Ross collection | 134 |
Mud at Sidi Haneish, November 1942 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 134 |
Indians unload petrol from a lighter at Bardia | G. W. Lyon | 166 |
Tobruk, December 1942 | G. W. Lyon | 166 |
Convoy arrives at Saunnu, December 1942 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 166 |
Padre Holland conducts a church service at Nofilia on Christmas Day, 1942 | C. A. Churchill | 166 |
14 Section outside Tripoli, March 1943 | NZ Army (H. Paton) | 166 |
On the edge of the Sahara | W. A. G. Washbourn | 166 |
Maurie Smylie produces a batch of scones, April 1943 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 166 page xiv |
‘500’. A game under the olive trees in Tunisia | W. A. G. Washbourn | 266 |
Marble Arch. Petrol Company convoy on the way back to Egypt | G. W. Lyon collection | 266 |
‘Jerricans by the acre’—a petrol dump in Southern Italy, November 1943 | NZ Army (G. F. Kaye) | 266 |
17 Section at Archi, November 1943 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 266 |
Montefalcone | W. A. G. Washbourn | 266 |
A bridge near Gissi | M. A. Knyvett collection | 266 |
Trucks wait to cross the low-level Bailey bridge over the Sangro, December 1943 | M. A. Knyrett collection | 266 |
Bert Davis and Dick Davies, I Platoon, in the Atessa area | M. A. Knyvett collection | 266 |
After a heavy snowfall in the Sangro area, January 1944 | M. A. Knyvett collection | 266 |
ASC personnel march past General Freyberg, January 1944 | NZ Army (G. F. Kaye) | 282 |
3 Platoon dispersed off Route 6 near Mignano | W. A. G. Washbourn | 282 |
Hove Dump | NZ Army (G. R. Bull) | 282 |
Petrol point at Alvito, June 1944 | W. A. G. Washbourn | 282 |
Ancona | M. A. Knyvett collection | 282 |
Petrol Company vehicles in Forli | M. A. Knyvett collection | 282 |
Crossing the Po River, April 1945 | H. W. Barnett | 282 |
Maj A. C. Dickson | 282 | |
Majors G. G. Good and G. S. Forbes | 282 | |
Brigadier S. H. Crump | NZ Army (G. R. Bull) | 282 |
Maj W. A. G. Washbourn | 282 | |
Maj H. W. Barnett | 282 |