The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (wearing light coloured uniform in foreground) and his entourage, inspecting a gun crew of B Troop, 105th Field Battery during a tour of Australian Installations in Malaya. Lt Gen Wells is talking to 2/8257 Gunner (Gnr) John Suthers, of Medlow Batch, NSW (bare chested left), who was later wounded in action and 5/2402 Gnr Ron Arnold, of Perth WA (bare chested right). Lt Gen Wells entourage includes Brigadier P N M Moore, DSO and two bars, MC, Commander of the 28th British Commonwealth Independent Infantry Brigade group (background) and two other unidentified officers of the Royal Australian Artillery regiment. Ready to fire cartridges are stacked in their boxes behind the two gunners and a QF 25 pounder field gun sits in the background. B troops gun line is located on the site of a disused tin mine in Northern Perak.
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (third from left) and his entourage, talk with unidentified members of a gun crew of B Troop, 105th Field B
2/8257 Gunner (Gnr) J E 'Junior' Suthers, of Katoomba, NSW, waiting, ready to load a 25 pounder high explosive round into Number 2 gun (B2), B Troop, 105th Field Battery. At 8.00 pm, on new years nigh
Informal portrait of 5/2402 Gunner (Gnr) Ron Arnold, of Perth, WA, and 3/5404 Gnr Jim Muncaster, of Kent Town, SA, both of 105th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, sitting in the back of a GMC
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (centre) and Colonel F W Speed, Commander Australian Army Forces Malaya (third from left next to L
1/3543 Gunner (Gnr) Ken Borgges, of West End, Qld, 3/10188 Gnr Jock Allan, of Mosman, NSW, 1/3446 Gnr Ian Jewell, of Murgon, Qld and 1/3381 Gnr Allan Jacobsen, of Rockhampton, Qld, all signallers with
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
