ian whitehead's life in pictures

I A N W H I T E H E A D

Born23rd December 1920

Berty & Gerty Whitehead – Parents to Ian

Ian & Ilene Whitehead – Siblings

Ian playing cricket at a jaunty angle

Ian with his first set of wheels

Ian & Ilene playing in the park – and Ian as a cowboy

Ian with his pet dog Teddy

Ian Whitehead – while at Park Town Boys High School – in Johannesburg

Berty, Gerty, Ilene & Ian Whitehead – in their garden in Johannesburg

Ian at Durban beach on holiday

Ian in his 1st Traansvaal Scotish uniform

On manoeuvres in Kenya at the outbreak of WW2 with the South African forces – Press Image

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Ian with Medics – arm on the mend

Ian potographed in Egypt

Ian with his section – ‘The Camel Cor’ – during the North African Campaign

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Ian next to a tank in North Africa

Ian with his comrade in arms Ken Morgan in their dug-out – just prior to the Battle of El Alamein

Covering their dug-out to remain hidden) – just prior to the Battle of El Alamein

Sleeping under the 4x4 truck in the desert

Digging a slit-trench in the North African desert – battle pending

Ian with his Dad Bertie – back in Johannesburg on leave after Alamein

Picture of Ian for his mother during the war

Ian & Marine at their wedding (Maurine Wheeler)

Ian & Maurine’s wedding picture 1949

Left: Berty Whitehead, Ilene Whitehead, Noel Slamon, Ian & Maurine, Evelin Van der Valt,

Margaret Wheeler. Louise Little, Terase & Fred Morter

Linden Chistian Church

Ian & Maurine’s four children – Brial, Graham, Neville & Jillian

Berty, Ian & Brian at the Robindale house – corner of Oak Avenue & Will Scarlet Ave.

Ian with a moustache

Home: 5 Clovelly Road, Greenside, Johannesburg during the early 1970s

Sailing champions: Graham and Neville Whitehead with proud parents

Ian & Maurine at 82 Greenway, Greenside, Johannesburg in 1991

Neville, Brian, Jill & Graham at 82 Greenway, Greenside, Johannesburg in 1991

Ian with his Miletary medals in MOTH blazer

Ian in his DJ on his ocean cruse around the Indian Ocean

Ian in good company on his ocean cruse around the Indian Ocean

Ian taking a microlite flight around Reunion in the Indian Ocean

Ian & Nevill in the flat at San Sereno in Bryanston

Ian with the medals in a wall case

Family medals including a DCM for Sgt Major Sidney Thwaits – Ian’s Grand Father

Old family photo of the homstead in the Eastern Cape

Ian in his mid 80s

Ian on his 90th birthday – could easily pass for 60? or 70?

Ian & Lorna Clark enjoying a special moments

Ian reading the Business section at Lorna’s cottage – ever keeping a watchful eye on affairs