The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Giving a helping hand to his mate, 2/8670 Private (Pte) (later Corporal) Ted Brookes, of Newcastle, NSW (left), tightens a pack strap for 1/3520 Pte (later Sergeant) Alan Bulow of Gladstone Qld (right). Both men are from B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), and they are members of a food party who have just met a ration truck at the fringe of the jungle to collect supplies for B Coy, which is on the trail of a Communist gang. Loaded up with rations of all kinds the men are ready to return to the main body of B Coy. Pte Brookes is armed with an Owen gun and Pte Bulow is armed with a Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine. The box on Pte Bulow's shoulder contains tins of cigarette tobacco. Pte Bulow later served in South Vietnam with the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) from 1966-1967.
Unidentified members of an ambush team from D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), move cautiously down a weed covered bank into a clear swamp area as they patrol along the f
Unidentified men of B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), file through the undergrowth down a steep track in the jungle of Perak. The second man in the line is armed
2/8783 Private H 'Vic' Podesta, of Riverstone, NSW, B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), stands guard while the men behind him unload 24 hour ration packs from a truck on th
1/3604 Private (later Lance Corporal) Don Lord, 20, of Mt Isa, Qld, B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) waits his turn for a shoot with his Number 5, Short Magazine
Lance Corporal (LCpl) Bob Watson, of Wynnum, Qld, B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), tightens his pack after loading it with six days worth of rations. The men in
A hive of activity as unidentified men of B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), unload ration cases and other provisions from a truck sent to re supply them on the fr
