The bridegroom in this March 4, 1949 wedding group was George Congreve , only son of Mr and Mrs F.J. Congreve , of Wembley, Western Australia , who married Betty , eldest daughter of Professor and Mrs F. A. Eastaugh , at All Saints, Hunters Hill ,Sydney. Dr John Flynn ,OBE, founder of the inland mission and the Flying Doctor Service , the world's first aerial ambulance service , officiated .
George, apparently an aviation engineer, was the brother of Marjorie Congreve, the so called most bombed out Australian nurse of WWll, recently mentioned and featured in this blog . The above photograph and those following are from one of her albums in this blog's collection.
The above shot shows George, with the help of a 44 gallon drum as a desk, conducting a 1948 Qantas class at Mascot , the handwritten caption saying it was for second year pilots and flight engineer apprentices .
In the above photo a Royal Netherlands Navy plane (Koninklitjke Marine ) is one of the aircraft being worked on . In the l946 Mascot view below George wrote it showed Qantas hangars 58 and 20, aircraft visible were two Lancaster Bombers , a Liberator and a Douglas. He worked in the hangar next to the tower .
The albums contain other photos of him in uniform in various parts of Australia during the war and in later civilian life in South Australia .
