The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An informal group portrait of a Section of men from 7 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), standing near an armoured truck, with the British Army Registration Number 39BJ55, which has just bought them from their base camp, several minutes drive away, for a cooling swim in a jungle stream in the Jalan Tinggi area of Perak. Some have brought towels and even though they are relaxing, the men have travelled with their Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbines, Owen guns and Bren guns as the area is still classified 'black' and is known to have Communist terrorists in the surrounding jungle. These soldiers have been conducting food denial operations and have been constantly patrolling the perimeter of a rubber plantation where their camp is set up, to ensure that no supplies are carried out to the Communist terrorists by the rubber workers on the estate. All Army vehicles must be escorted by armoured cars or the bigger armoured trucks such as this one. The Australians commonly refer to these vehicles as coffins.
Informal portrait of an unidentified Australian soldier standing with his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine at the ready, guarding his mates from 7 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Ba
With his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine slung over his shoulder and silhouetted against the Perak River, an unidentified sentry from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Re
Members of a guard, with bayonets attached to their Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbines, present arms as the trucks and guns of 105th Field Battery move out of their base camp
A Daimler Ferret armoured car which has just escorted these unidentified soldiers from 'stand by' platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, (2RAR), to a rubber plantation, keep
An unidentified group of soldiers from A Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), washing and shaving by the side of a creek which runs through a rubber plantation. The men are cl
Heavily laden men of D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), move through a rubber plantation as they hunt Communist terrorists in Perak. The men each have to carry over 60 pou
