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(?)