The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of men of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC) taking a road side break in central Perak. Some are smoking as they await the order to move off. There is one British soldier wearing a beret and all the Australians are wearing their slouch hats. Instead of wearing the modern long canvas and rubber boots, the Australians have been issued with the older style short leather boots and webbing anklets. This RAASC unit is serving with 3 Company, Royal Army Service Corps, a British unit, stationed at Ipoh in Central Perak. It is the first time that these units have been members of an integrated bi-national unit in Malaya. The vehicles they are travelling in are GMC, CCKW-353 two and a half ton trucks.
Informal portrait of 6/803 Private (Pte) Bill Smith, of Launceston, Tas, a driver and member of The Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC), which is integrated with 3 Company, Royal Army Service
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (second from left), inspects the vehicle lines of the Australian component of the Royal Australian
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (second from right), inspects the vehicle lines of the Australian component of the Royal Australia
Informal portrait of 5/2783 Private (Pte) Garry Burgoyne, of Kalgoorlie, WA (left), and 5/1895 Driver, Lance Corporal (LCpl) Vic Painter, of Perth, WA (right), both of the Royal Australian Service Cor
2/7376 Gunner Ray Seaborn, 20, of Katoomba, NSW, a driver with A Troop (A Tp), 105th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), checks under the bonnet of his GMC, CCKW-353 two and a half ton tr
A GMC, CCKW-353 two and a half ton truck filled with troops from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), passes over a drainage culvert as it moves down a road in Malaya. Village huts and
