The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Armed with a Savage Stevens pump action shotgun is 3/10661 Private (Pte) Charles (Charlie) Ernest Parsons, 31, of Puckapunyal, Vic, B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), after returning from a five day patrol against Communist terrorists in the jungle of Perak. Originally from Somerset, Britain, Pte Parsons has now made Australia his home, finding Army life with the Aussies to his liking. Pte Parsons also served in Korea with 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), from 1952-1953.
An unidentified group of Australian soldiers from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), set out along a trail for a night patrol through the jungle of northern Malaya. The lead soldier
Armed with an Owen gun, 2/9002 Private (Pte) Paul Feneley, of Belfields, NSW (right), B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), acts as 'shotgun' guard as the unidentified men be
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
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
Wireless operator 1/3257 M M Wilson, of Brisbane, Qld, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), using an American manufactured AN/PRC 10 wireless set to relay a message forward to 2RAR tr
Informal portrait of 1/2427 Private (Pte) Arthur 'Bluey' Hamilton, of Mackay, Qld (rear) erecting his insect net and tent, while his mate 3/4608 Pte Kev O'Meara, of Windsor, Vic (foreground) unpacks r
