The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
On jungle escort duty is Corporal (Cpl) Jeff Smith, 23, of Launceston, Tas, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), demonstrating how to adjust the Alice or 'A' frame which is being used for carrying a 44 pound carton of ration packs. His Malayan bearers, recruited from the Sakai Reserve, listen and watch carefully prior to departing on a re supply mission. Cpl Smith's Owen gun is lying across an Alice frame in the foreground.
3/5654 Private (Pte) John G Mutton, of Geelong, Vic (standing left), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), supervising some men, recruited from the Sakai Reserve as they prepare to depa
Organising a resupply operation is 2/7983 2nd Lieutenant Kevin J Long, (kneeling) of Newcastle, NSW, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), explaining the method of attaching a 44 pound
Three unidentified members of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), take a breather before moving off with their column that will bring up supplies to a forward company that is in conta
A group of unidentified Malayan soldiers at the Kampong Becor, unloading 44 pound cartons of ration packs from small motor boats that have travelled upstream along the Perak river to resupply forward
Watched by local villagers, an unidentified Australian soldier carefully negotiates a steep embankment as he takes a carton of ration packs down to a small motor boat moored on the Perak River. Once l
A supply column comprising a mixed group of Malayan Home Guard and Australian soldiers make their way alongside a creek as they bring up 44 pound ration cartons on Alice frames to a patrol group from
