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Battiss Funeral (2)
WAM COLLECTION. RETRIEVE

Item date(s): 25.8.82

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Size: 25.2 x 20cm
Technique: Photograph
Inscription: Inscribed to Linda and Gerard and annotated with those present.

Category: Found
Type: Photograph

ART 1263

Additional notes:
Two photographs of Battiss' funeral on taken on 25.8.82.

The inscription on the back of the photographs read:

1. To Linda & Gerard

The day we said goodbye to a Fookin' Great Man. Long live the King of Fook!

25.8.82 Menlo Park, Pretoria

From left to right: Belinda - who changed her name to "Raine" (Giles' wife), Camilla [Giles' eldest daughter], Veronica [Giles' youngest daughter], Giles, Johannes (Battiss' driver-housekeeper) , and Walter's brother, Alfred (74). Front: Father Carricer [sp?]

Love, Dean

[Also in the photograph are an unidentified woman, Christopher Till and a photographer].

2. In memory of Walter Battiss (6.1.1906 - 20.8.82)

To Linda & Gerard

Giles Battiss & Eduardo Villa drape Walter's coffin with the Fook Flag.

(Linda, you're right here in the left corner.)

25.8.82 Menlo Park, Pretoria

Love, Dean.

[Also in the photograph are Christopher Till and another woman next to him, the unidentified woman in the first photograph, her husband(?)

Warren to advise name of photographer.

Ref: GB/50052







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