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DAN-AIR de Havilland Comet 4C G-APDN at Gatwick Airport

DAN-AIR de Havilland Comet 4C G-APDN at Gatwick Airport. DAN-AIR started life as Davies and Newman Airlines after the two founders. (this could well be the Comet 4C I flew from Gatwick to Venice on in 1972, to join the SS Nevasa for an educational Mediterranean cruise). Coincidentally I boarded Nevasas sister ship the SS Uganda at Port Stanley in December 1984 on Its penultimate trooping voyage before being scrapped. Date: circa 1970

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

African Native People, lithograph, published in 1897

African Native People: 1 - 2) Mpongwe people from Gabun; 3) Arab from Morocco; 4) Arab from the southern Tunisia; 5) Fellah; 6 - 7) Copts; 8) Koto from Niger; 9) Fang people; 10) Berber (Dachelaner); 11) Fur people; 12) Nubian; 13) Congolese people; 14) Zulu people; 15) Bagirmi boy; 16) Mangbetu (Monbuttu); 17) Zande people (Niam-Niam); 18) Madi people (Schuli); 19 - 20) Abyssinian people; 21 - 22) Khoikhoi (formerly derogatory named as Hottentots); 23) Batswana girl (Betschuan); 24) Aka people; 25 - 26) San people (Bushmen); 27) Sakalava people from Madagascar; 28) Swahili people from Zanzibar (Tanzania); 29 - 30) Somalis. Lithograph after a drawing by Gustav MAOEtzel (German painter, 1839 - 1893), published in 1897

East African Reconnaissance Regiment in Burma

Photograph of a soldier from the East African Reconnaissance Regiment, checking a machine-gun, Burma, 1945. The East African Reconnaissance Regiment, part of 11th East African Division, was equipped with armoured cars and light tanks. In this image a soldier checks a Browning machine-gun. His division incorporated battalions of the King?s African Rifles and other forces from Kenya, Uganda, Nyasaland (now Malawi), Somaliland (Somalia) and Tanganyika (Tanzania). The Africans proved extremely hardy and tenacious in several battles, both as combatant soldiers, medical staff, and carriers. One of 12 photographs captioned: East African Reconnaissance Regiment in Burma. From photograph album of 147 photographs, 1944-1945. Associated with Brig M W Briggs and the 11th East African Division and the King's African Rifles, World War Two, Far East (1941-1945). Date: 1945

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library