By: longshot - 9th February 2015 at 20:42
Looks a bit hot for Durban….looks like a big river …if it was at Singapore it would have been before 1942..this Clipper is supposed to be there
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/e41a836a5bcf0166.html
By: Lazy8 - 9th February 2015 at 19:39
Singapore would be possible. Canopus was nominally based at Durban for at least the latter part of the war, but the boats did get about a bit! In common with most of the rest of the fleet, by mid-1944 she’d lost the camouflage, which narrows the dates a little. I’ve been running through all the C-class photos I can find, trying to match the background, but so far without success
By: Grahammee - 9th February 2015 at 19:17
Singapore would make sense as he managed to leave a few hours before the Japanese arrived.
By: longshot - 9th February 2015 at 18:12
Do you have any details of where your father-in-law was stationed? There was also a Horseshoe ‘branch’ to West Africa with some flying boat activity.
By: Mothminor - 8th February 2015 at 23:10
Can’t help with an exact location but Canopus is in wartime camouflage and is probably therefore on the “Horseshoe route” adopted when it became impossible to operate safely over the Med. This route varied from time to time as the war progressed but the map here gives a good idea of the bases originally used and the photo may have been taken at one of the coastal locations shown –
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