The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), hanging wet clothes on a makeshift clothes line outside their shelter. The men are camped in a rubber plantation and their clothes have been soaked with dew following an all night wait to ambush Communist terrorists. Pte Young has been a soldier for four and a half years and is a veteran of the Korean war, having served with 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), in 1953. After leaving high school, Pte Miller joined the Australian Army Apprentices School in Balcombe, Vic, and later joined 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) to gain overseas experience.
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 girlf
Haggard and dirty after 12 hard days of patrolling in the jungle of Perak, 2/410174 Private (Pte) (later Corporal) G 'Snow' Barnes, of Goulburn, NSW, 10 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Au
Informal portrait of 4/1746 Private (Pte) Don Lester, of Kirkcaldy, SA, and 2/8783 Pte Vic Podesta, of Riverstone, NSW, both of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR). They are each readi
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
Informal portrait of 3/2818 Private (Pte) Wally E Spurr, of Albury, NSW, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), manning a Bren gun. The gun has been fitted into the turret of a converted
Informal portrait of 2/4710 Private (Pte) Jack White, of Woollahra, NSW, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR). Pte White also served in Korea with 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Re
