The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 3/42536 Private (Pte) Ian Dixon, of Mildura, Vic, Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), writing a letter home to his girlfriend. After leaving Mildura High school, Pte Dixon joined the apprentices school with the Australian Army in Balcombe, Vic and qualified as an Electrical Tradesman. He initially served with 17th Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers, but joined 2RAR to gain oversees experience. He has just returned from an all night ambush vigil with other members of his unit and is resting next to his shelter in the relative coolness of a rubber plantation. Clothes and boots are drying on his improvised clothes line and his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine is close to hand.
Informal portrait of 5/2105 Private (Pte) Neville Clarence Young, of Esperence, WA (left), and Pte Joe Miller, of Rutherglen, Vic (right), both of Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company, 2nd Battali
With his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine slung over his shoulder, 3/5728 Private (Pte) (later Corporal) John Taylor, of Rosanna, Vic (right), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Austr
3/10681 Private (Pte) S 'Taffy' Collict, of Geelong, Vic, D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), using an Australian made 510 radio set to keep in touch with company headquart
2/5009 Private (Pte) T S 'Slim' Cahalane, of Condoblin, NSW, B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) waits his turn for a shoot with his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enf
6/1059 Private (Pte) Royce Sheriff, of Wynyard, Tas (left), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), stops to chat with Muragiah Asu of the Malayan Police as they patrol the barbed wire ga
1/3604 Private (later Lance Corporal) Don Lord, 20, of Mt Isa, Qld, B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) waits his turn for a shoot with his Number 5, Short Magazine
