The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
1/2573 Private (Pte) Raymond (Ray) Keith Bird, 35, of Giru, Qld, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), makes friends with an orphaned five year old at the Sakai Reserve, where he has been sent with other members of his company to recruit some village men as supply bearers. Pte Bird also served in Korea with 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) and later with 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) in 1954.
1/2296 Warrant Officer 2 (WO2), Alan L Lawson, of Coorparoo, Qld, Company Sergeant Major of B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), admiring a caged dove at the house of the he
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
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
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), afte
Portrait of 1/2996 Private (Pte) Philip Bertie Blessington, 28, of Brisbane, Qld, 126th Transport Platoon, Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC), integrated with 3 Company, Royal Army Service Co
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
