Petrol Company

List of Illustrations

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Petrol Dump in the Western Desert, 1940	NZ Army	Frontispiece
		Following page
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

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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

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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

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‘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