HOB/56/0306/MC Accession Number: HOB/56/0306/MC

Description

Men of Support Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), collecting and eating their lunch from the company cookhouse which has been hastily erected in a rubber plantation, close to an area in the jungle that the troops had been ambushing the previous night. Two soldiers standing at the trestle table have Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbines slung over their shoulders. An Owen gun is leaning against a rubber tree (left).

Details

Accession Number
HOB/56/0306/MC
Photographer
Phillip Oliver Hobson
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
29 January 1956
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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Accession HOB/56/0306/MC

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