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An image of HMS 'Vanguard', a British Navy battleship at Cape Town Harbour in South Africa. The ship was used as a royal yacht to transport King George VI and his family to South Africa, the first visit to the country by a reigning British monarch. HMS 'Vanguard' arrived in Cape Town on 17 February, escorted by the South African frigates 'Good Hope', 'Transvaal' and 'Natal' on the last leg of her voyage. The warship departed Cape Town on 22 April 1947.

Funeral service at Mankoya mission station. The celebrant is Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.

An image of Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. with local religious sisters in South Africa.

An image of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. with a crew member on board the ‘Irish Plane’, an Irish merchant ship, docked at Cape Town in South Africa.

An image of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (second from the left) with two diocesan priests and a couple possibly at Cape Town Harbour in South Africa.

An image of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. preparing for an religious service on Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa.

An image titled 'Fr. Kelly’s Church in the heart of the Flats'. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Typical flat country with occasional roads thro it. But he [Fr. Kelly] has very few residents in such a place. He is very old now and I expect we shall be asked to take it later. He has his own house and four mission churches attached – all built by his own parishioners’ hands’.

An image of Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap. outside a church in Cape Town, South Africa.

A portrait photograph of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (1898-1953), an Irish Capuchin missionary in Northern Rhodesia.

Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. (left) and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. with parishioners (probably at St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa).