KevinD wrote:
As you are no doubt aware Dick, unless directly mentioned, in all likelyhood he did not take those album photos. Many of the sailors on many ships had the same photo's in their albums. But of course it may state somewhere that he actually took them, but........................
I don't
think he took the DR and Java ones (I posted earlier in this thread) anyway, as it seems he was not ever on HMAS Ballarat. The first time I ever saw the one of DR it had this caption "
De Ruyter in her camouflage scheme, most likely in January of February 1942. The photo was taken from the Australian minesweeper HMAS Ballarat. (Collection HMAS Ballarat Association, via Peter Cannon)" See that uncropped image below.
Not that we should not be grateful for him allowing his album to be published,
we are!
Yes Kevin, aware of that. For example it would have been difficult for him to have taken the photos of the German paratroopers at their departure airfield or of the German soldiers embarking on the Italian destroyer! It would seem that enterprising individuals took to selling multiple copies of popular photos through ships' canteens and so the same images often crop up in various veterans' photo albums.
I also agree with you that the particular photos of de Ruyter and Java (if I am thinking of the right ones) that you posted (Sept 16th - side by side) came via a route other than Goodwin. However he could theoretically have taken the three in his album (which were the ones I was guessing Maxim was referring to) during his time on Hobart could he not?
For good measure here is another one of Java taken from Canberra so again not via Goodwin. I wonder how many more photos are lurking in Australian collections?