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Post by phil on Jun 18, 2011 17:17:40 GMT 12
When I was working as a photographer at CPE we actually got a new Queens Colour. The one paraded now is not the original presented by the queen. That one was getting a bit past it so a new one was made at great expence in England. This was about 2003 or 2004 perhaps. Some here may remember the very large RNZAF Parade at Ohakea where the handover of the new Colour took place.
One thing that many people don't know is that the Queens colour has a log book, for want of a better term, that is filled out with the details of each parade it is paraded for. This is signed by the reviewing officer. I had the task of photographing each page of the original colour's book. It made for some interesting reading and there were some very interesting signatures, including the Queen's, Prince Charles and pretty much every PM since the colour was presented.
We certainly do far less parades now than we did in my early years.
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Post by camtech on Sept 6, 2017 15:31:01 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 6, 2017 16:02:59 GMT 12
I remember standing with Mum, Nana and my sister at the entrance to Hamilton Airport to watch the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh come out of the airport in their Rolls Royce to head off to Hamilton. We then jumped into the car and raced down to my uncle and aunty's place to watch the live TV coverage of whatever they were doing in Hamilton. The most thrilling thing was it was on my uncle's brand new coloured television, the first time I ever saw coloured TV. It seemed amazing.
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Post by camtech on Sept 6, 2017 16:08:23 GMT 12
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Post by rone on Sept 6, 2017 17:44:36 GMT 12
Sorry to have to correct you Dave, but you must have watched the Queen leave Rukuhia on the later visit by the Queen. In 1953 there was no television in New Zealand, technicians were still doing courses at Seddon Tech. in Auckland at that time, and colour Telivision did not come to NZ until mid 1960. And the car in the last picture is a Daimler.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Sept 6, 2017 18:34:56 GMT 12
...I don't think Dave was even thought of in 1953...
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 6, 2017 18:59:22 GMT 12
My story was set in 1977. I thought I'd written that but obviously hadn't. I was six.
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Post by camtech on Sept 7, 2017 13:59:12 GMT 12
Just noticed that the parade order of dress was no 3 SD, in late January! One would have hoped for a cool breeze.
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Post by fwx on Sept 11, 2019 20:47:22 GMT 12
Another immaculate photo from the W/C "Mac" Baigent collection, this one of NZ3551 behind a group at either Whenuapai (where he was based in 1953) or Ohakea. Seems more likely 41 Sqdn personnel at Whenuapai, even though this appears to be NZ3551 after she had been converted to VIP standard for the Royal Tour later that year and attached to 42 Squadron. - "Mac" Baigent collection, kind permission of his daughter Jan. Anyone have a better idea of what and where this was taken? Thanks. The original scan is twice the size of this and individual faces can easily be identified. As Base Commandant, Whenuapai, "Mac" would have been at this Colours ceremony, and had received an invitation to meet the Queen and Duke at a reception at Government House, Auckland on the 24th of December but sadly died just six weeks before it took place.
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Post by baz62 on Sept 11, 2019 21:31:29 GMT 12
Wow look at those polished prop blades. :-)
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Post by tbf25o4 on Sept 12, 2019 9:41:11 GMT 12
If you were a "bad" boy at Ohakea when NZ3551 was in residence, one of the punishments was to polish said aircraft to maintain the shiny exterior
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 12, 2019 17:39:36 GMT 12
Must have been a lot of bad boys there at that time by the look of things
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