Photograph album
Kruyshaar, Lt. Jan Peter "Chrissie"
2 Squadron, North Africa 1942-1943
Captions from photographs: text marked in Italic
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Tinus le Roux
Jan 2016
1 Pilot standing identified as possibly Billy Turnbull of 5 sqn.
2) Pilots arrive in Middle East mid 1942?: Pilots identified: from left to right: Wally Brunton, Jock Wight 5 th, Billy Turnbull 8th, Angus Allen-White 9th
2) pilots disembarking
3) 1 Sqn Spit V
4) Kryushaar and Jock Wight
5) Mech and Jock
6) Chrissie and mech
7) Mech and ?
8) 2 sqn 109 tail
9) 2 sqn 109
10) 2 sqn 109
11) 2 sqn boys and the flag
12) 2 sqn boys and the flag
13) 2 sqn guns being harmonised
14) 2 sqn kitty on its back
15) 2 sqn on the move
16) 2 sqn table
17) 2 Sqdn team. Cape Bon LtR standing: Angus Allen-White, Vic Martin, Jock Wight, front row: Horse Sweeney second from left, Bob Kershaw 4th.
18) SM-79
19) 88 AA . Gun crew graves front. Tunisia
20) Coastal gun
21) 109 wings
22) 210mm LR gun captured in working order
23) After our swim.Cape Bon
24) aileron shot away. Dweetwater Texas crate.
25) Albacores
26) Ambulance post mine
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29) Arab mrket sell dates. spices
30) Arabs interested in refuel jeep
31) Arming Kitty
32) Blikkies. Barney. Bushie outside mess
33) Blown up by Jerry on Karuan enfideville rd
34) Boston formo
35) Boston
36) Briefing
37) British grave
38 Camp
39) Capt Driver
40) Capt Paddy HOPE and self on 110. Martuba
41) Carrying 109 prop
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44 CHARging plant and makers Hoefie Hauptfleisch 2 from right
45 Church
46 Churchill at our drome.
47 Churchill at our drome.1.
49 Churchill at our drome.1.
50 Churchill at our drome.1.
51) Churchill at our drome.
52) Churchill at our drome.
53) Convoy
54) Daylight raid taken from slit trench
55 Done by retreating Germans
56) Enemy raid at night
57) Fiesler Storch
58) Fiesler Storch
59) Enemy captured vehicles race line-up. Bookie running around
60 Finnish our car race. caruan
61) My captured car called M Zimbi.Iron. in captured car race
62) 1 st car after crashed
63) My 3rd car. for swim
64
65 French Arab village
66 French parading in Tunis
67) FS we captured starting up
68) FW190
69) Gazera sporting club. Cairo
70) German 109 wrecks
71) Kruyshaar
72) Going on leave in Lodestar
73) Lt Keyter.self.Duccase.Allen White.Gilbert.Driver (Knocked out Sherman)
74) Hit from 88 on Sherman
75) Kruyshaar
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77) Hosp ship I came down on
78) Hospital
79) HS-129
80) Hurri EJ T. z5595. collapsed u.c on take off.
81) I and my beard.
82) I and my Kitty.
83) I in my Kitty.
84) Jock Wight?
85) In Slit trnch dring bmb rd. outside mess
86) In Souse
87 Kruyshaar
88) Inside our tent.
89) Inter Sqdn soft ball match
90) Italian helmet
91) Jock and the flies.
92) Jock Wight in his Kubelwagen
93) Jock Wight
94) Jock Wight
95) Jock Wight Cape Bon
96) Jack Wright. Sunset Tunisia
97) Jock Wight.Self. Paddy Hope
98) Jack Wright.my tent mate.up late
99) Jacko. oldest member of sqdn.
100
101 Jerry Bomb
102 Junkers. 2 sqdn mascot.
103 Junkers
104) Kilimanjaro
105) Kitchen and mess.
106) Kitty cockpit.
107) Kitty crashed on take off.
108)
109) Kitty engine change in the field
110) HS-Y
111) HS-Y
112) HS-Y
113) 4 sqn Kitty
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119) 4 sqn
120) Knocked out Italian tank.int
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124) Kruyshaar
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126) Kruyshaar
127) Kruyshaar
128) ground staff
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130) Kruishaar
131) Marble Arch
132) Maybe Paddy Hope and tent
133) Me 110. 3U MS
134) meal time on the move.
135) Mitchell
136) Mitchell
137) Olga.Tamara.Buck Deacon. Jock Wight
138) Our Russian friends in Tunis