World War I Australian Flying Corps group of 13 photographs taken by an unidentified member of the Australian Flying Corps, most with captions on reverse. Included are 'Baron Richthofen's Grave', and another titled 'The bus we fly RE8. These are the chaps that the Fritz in the other machine got. They are both dead & the bus flew & landed itself when out of petrol'. A rare image of pilot James Sandy & observer Henry Hughes, together with a copy of a report of this incident.
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Shipwreck 1942 (Nov) series of mostly small prints recording the heavy seas and consequent wreck of SS 'Kapara' just off Flinders Island (South Australia), several of the vessel breaking-up (the largest of 250x195mm has a few faults), ropes rigged between the ship & shore bringing over the engine & anchor etc, others of the crew & passengers, etc, also 1930s (?) shot of the ship in calm waters, generally very fine.
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