Description
Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (second from right), inspects the vehicle lines of the Australian component of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC) which is attached to 3 Company (3 Coy) Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) at their base Headquarters in Ipoh, Perak. Lt Gen Wells is accompanied by, from left 3/35041 Lieutenant (later Captain) A T Hall, MID, of Melbourne, Vic, 126th Transport Platoon, RAASC; an unidentified senior British officer (partially obscured); Lieutenant Colonel E H Lonsdale, British Army; 2/35019 Captain Anson E Goodall of Canberra, ACT, Headquarters, 3 Coy RASC. Lt Gen Wells is talking to Private (Pte) (later Lance Corporal) Mike Morris, of Hay, NSW, a driver with 126th Transport Platoon, RAASC. Pte Morris was later wounded in action while serving in Malaya. The line of vehicles are GMC, CCKW-353 two and a half ton trucks.
Details
Accession Number
HOB/56/0632/MC
Photographer
Phillip Oliver Hobson
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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