Captain AES Howes
- Rank
- Captain
- School
- King Edward VII School
- 1943 voyage
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Sailed from Cape Town on the Rangitata in September 1943, and signed the group photograph taken in Montevideo on the way.
The story of the photograph
- Fate
- Survived the war
- In the book
- Pages 138, 140
From the book
SAAF Airmen in RAF Squadrons
Several participated in the BBC Africa shortwave’s weekly programme “Song time in the Laager” broadcast from London. The airmen in the top image from the left, McGregor, Begbie, Howes, Eagar all former King Edwards pupils in Johannesburg sailed on the “Rangitata” with another former pupil all of whom signed the mounting. That photograph and two others including Lt’s IF Watson, Meyer, Higgins and Quick from the Transvaal appeared in an English magazine in May 1944. 2nd Lt Tony Collett and Naval servicemen in the bottom image were from the Eastern Cape.
SAAF Airmen in RAF Squadrons
On November 21st, 1945, twenty-seven months after sailing out of Cape Town on the “Rangitata” Captain’s Howes, Eagar and three unidentified airmen from their seconded group disembarked from the “Ille de France” in Cape Town after a home voyage with no convey escort or threat of a U Boat’s torpedoes but enough time to reflect on events and remember the pilots in their group who had lost their lives.