The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A patrol section from 7 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), move through a clearing as they enter the Kampong 'Landak', also known as the 'Village of the Porcupine', which is tucked away at the foot of a heavily wooded slope in the Jalan Tinggi area of Perak. This Kampong is about three miles away from the C Company base camp at Jalan Tinggi and the patrolling soldiers have just walked through the jungle to get here.
4/1685 Private (Pte) Arthur Horne, of Adelaide, SA (left), 7 Platoon, C Company (C Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), taking a photograph of a four year old boy smoking a cigar
Informal portrait of 1/3184 Private (Pte) John Whitter, of Wynnum, Qld (left), C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), talking to a small village boy (right) from the Kampong '
A resting dog watches as 2/8640 Private (Pte) Bob Blacklock, of Drummoyne, NSW (left), 4/1685 Pte Arthur Horne, of Magill, SA (centre), and 3/42550 Pte Peter West, of Ballarat, Vic (right), all of 7 P
2/8640 Private Bob Blacklock, of Drummoyne, NSW (right), 7 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), receiving some instruction from a village man (left) in the use of a
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
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
