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Charles Gray: 1940-41 – Fledgling air transport and services in PNG

by Roy · 04/09/2020

Tess costumes for war effort 2

tess' housboys

tess in costume war effort 3

Tess on Kundu bridge wau

Tess out walking

Tess pistol pract

Tess round portrait coloured

The biggies at Wau

unloading Ford trimotor

War effort 4 & by the river

washing gold bullolo

Wau below Kund bridge 1st Anniversary 2 2 41

Wau aerial taken from East

wau creek below water race wau

wau from top of strip

Wau office trimotor junkers

wau Tn & Ian Hosey on Swing bridge contr ast31

Wau TN &Ch & Shirley Budden at water race

Wau TN with Doug Muir's girlfriend

wau water race wau

Wrecked aircraft 2

a big singsng

aerial of a river

Aerial shot of grasslands 2

Aerial shot of Salamaua drome

aerial shot

Bill Gray Lae 1941

Bird of paradise card

boat on lake

Bullolo dredge

C H Gray New Guinea 1941

captain of Ford at controls

car trip from Lae

charles with his Gipsy Moth

Doug Muir beside house wau

Doug Muir

dressed up like at the races 1

Fancy dress ball Wau Chas bride

Fancy dress party Wau

Flower arrangement

Flying boat

Fords taxiing Wau

Gaggle parked at Wau

Gipsy at Surprise Ck

Gipsy Moth

Grass building

group of Mankis in kunai

House boys at sing sing

house in Wau

inside the Wau house

junkers capy lae

Junkers on floats

Kukus at menyamya

Kundu bridge wau

Lae back of the house

looking up Wau strip

lowland villagers outside large hut

Moresby harbour

Native army unit wau

Native army unit wau1

Native army unit wau2

people beside ford

pistol practise

possible reconnaissance

possibly bullolo aerial

Possibly half way down Wau strip

Salamaua aerial shots

smashed fox and dragon

Soro the house meri

taking it easy in Wau

tess Kundu vine bridge

Tess & Chas at sing sing

Tess & Chas Wau pool 1941

Tess and friend & son at wau pool

Tess and Ida tompkins concert 1

Tess and stan Webb 5miles from Lae

tess at wau pool

Tess beside Nipa palm

Roy

Worked for Burns Philp in Popondetta and Port Moresby from 1980 through 1987

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