Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs from Qantas at war, 1934-1945

Sir Hudson Fysh papers, ca.1817-1974

106. Short Empire S.23 flying boat Corio VH-ABD taking off / Qantas
107. DH 86 crash, Barsdale near Longreach, 15 Nov 1934
108. Duke of Gloucester with A.E. Rudder, Capt. L.J. Brain and Fysh at Australia's first overseas air service with a DH 61 Giant Moth Diana VH-UJC, Archerfield, 10 Dec 1934 / Qantas 
109. Imperial Airways Handley Page HP42 G-AAXC Heracles leaving London, 1935 / Qantas (acknowledge "The Aeroplane")
110. First Qantas Empire Airways board meeting, Sydney, 17 July 1938 - l to r, H.H. Harman (Sect.), F.E. Loxton, Fergus McMaster (Chair), A.E. Rudder (Vice-Chair), F.J. Smith, Fysh (Managing Director), (W.A. Watt absent) / Russell Roberts
111. DH 86 RMA Canberra refuels with Shell, Longreach
112. S.A. Dismore, Secretary of Imperial Airways and H.H. Harman, Secretary of QEA
113. Ashore from the Short Singapore III survey flying-boat, Roper River: Brackley and McComb in rubber dinghy / H.Fysh
114. Hempel, Riccard, McComb and Elder at Karumba, Norman River / H.Fysh
115. First official passenger, Lady Louis Mountbatten, with Capt. R.B. Hussey / Qantas
116. Hempel, Riccard and Brackley in rowing boat, Bowen / H.Fysh

117. Empire flying boat promenade deck / Qantas
118. QEA Empire flying boat in RAAF battle-dress (A18-10)
119. Tasman Empire Airways Board, 1941 - l to r, T.A. Barrow, A.E. Rudder (Vice-Chair), Brigadier N.S. Falla (Chair), C.G. White, Fysh, Sir Fergus McMaster / Rob Hillier
120. TEAL flying boat Aotearoa ZK-AMA over Auckland / Stewart & White Ltd.
121. Crew who ferried first Catalina USA-Australia for the RAAF - l to r, Flt Engr D. Wright, Capt L.J. Brain, W/O Bemrose, Capt G.U. Allan, W/O Richmond, Capt P.G. Taylor / Qantas
122. Major Brackley and Timor ponies, Koepang / H.Fysh
123. Empire flying boat Cassiopeia G-ADUX landing, Dili, 1941 / Qantas
124. Bombed ships burn, Darwin Harbour / Dept. Information
125. Flying Fortress destroyed by incendiaries, Broome raid, Mar 1942
126. Rescuing VH-USC and another DH 86, Mt Hagen airstrip / Qantas
127. QEA Empire wartime air routes, map in Fysh's office prior to his trip to England, June 1945 - l to r, Capt. W.H. Crowther, A.E. Rudder, Fysh, Capt. H.B. Hussey / Richard McKinney

128. Catalina over the sea, Perth-Ceylon / Qantas
129. Certificate awarded to H.Fysh "Secret Order of the Double Sunrise" for passengers who flew the Qantas Indian Ocean wartime route from Perth-Colombo, airborne for more than 24 hours (longest scheduled civil airline flight, 3513 miles in unarmed Lend Lease Catalinas in complete radio silence, the planes sunk post-war off Rottnest Island)
130. Lord Knollys, Chair of BOAC, 2nd from right, visits;  Campbell Orde, Chief Technical Officer, BOAC, 2nd from left
131. Loading wounded onto flying boat Camilla, Port Moresby / Qantas
132. Visitors to New Guinea - Arthur Drakeford (Minister for Air), F. Gullick (private secretary) and A.B. Corbett (Director-General of Civil Aviation) talk with Papuan natives Francis and Michael / Dept. of Information
133. Fysh watching unloading of ammunition and armour plate from Qantas Lodestar VH-CAA in US Air Force livery, Dobodura Airstrip / Qantas
134. Australian wounded about to embark for Moresby on Qantas Lockheed Lodestar operated for US Army, Popondetta, 1 Dec 1942 / Qantas
135. Near miss - two Qantas Lodestars operated for US Army, Pt Moresby / H.Fysh
136. QEA work on a USAF Liberator, Archerfield, 24 Apr 1943 / Qantas
137. Woman in wartime works on Coriolanus, Rose Bay, 1944 / Rob Hillier
138. Lord Reith arrives on the Commando, 1945 - l to r, Sir E. Herbert (Director-General British Postal & Telegraph Censorship Dept.), Sir S. Angwin (Assistant Director-General British Post Office), John J.M. Buckley (British War Cabinet Secretariat), Lord Reith (Commissioenr for Works and Planning), Fysh, L.V. Lewis (British Post Office)

139. Coriolanus rescue - native canoe reconnoitres the flying-boat
140. Wounded from crashed Flying Fortress alongside
141. Capt. R.B. Tapp, ccommander of the first Lancastrian mail plane deleivered in Australia, L. N/O F.E. Sander, R.G. Williams (Senior Service Engineer), Mascot, 17 Apr 1945 / Richard McKinney

Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs from Qantas at war, 1934-1945

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