The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
2/35076 Lieutenant (Lt) Barry Tinkler, of Salisbury, SA (centre), Officer in Charge, 8 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), consulting a map of Perak in his office, with two Malayan Special Police Officers from Sinngei Siput in Perak. These special police officers work in close harmony with 2RAR and often supply information on the movement of Communist terrorists, which the soldiers of 2RAR then investigate. Lt Tinkler graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon and prior to serving in Malaya, was posted to the Royal Australian Corps of Signals. He was seconded to 2RAR and has been in Malaya for eight months. In civilian life, Lt Tinkler was an industrial chemist at Newcastle but he has decided on a full time career as a soldier in the Australian Army. He is married and has a six month old daughter whom he has not yet seen. Lt Tinkler later saw service in South Vietnam as a Major with the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) from 1962-1963. He also revisited South Vietnam for a month in 1971.
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (left) Chats to Private Bob Bunton, of Auburn, NSW, D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian
As part of their food denial operation against Communist terrorists, unidentified soldiers from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), stop traffic at a roadside checkpoint in Perak. Her
Loaded up and ready for his patrol, 6/985 Private (Pte) Ian Lloyd, 24, of Ulverstone, Tas, 9 Platoon (9 Pl), C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), watches as helicopters from
Three unidentified men from C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) wave off their mates from 9 Platoon, as they lift off from the sports field (padang) at Sungei Siput in a We
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (left) chats to 2/10525 Private (Pte) Sam Shaw, of Manchester, UK (right foreground), D Company (D
Informal portrait of 1/3719 Private (Pte) Jim Cuffe, of Charleville, Qld (left), and 1/2502 Sergeant Keith Richards, of Marooka, Qld (right), both of 8 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Aus
