HOB/56/0638/MC Accession Number: HOB/56/0638/MC

Description

Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (left) chats to 2/10525 Private (Pte) Sam Shaw, of Manchester, UK (right foreground), D Company (D Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR). Pte Shaw also served in Korea with 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), from 1952-1953, where he was wounded in action. Pte Shaw and two other unidentified members of D Coy are standing in front of steel ammunition boxes. Lt Gen Wells is on a tour of all the Australian installations in Malaya and has made this stop to inspect D Coy at their base on the fringe of a rubber plantation in Lintang, Perak.

Details

Accession Number
HOB/56/0638/MC
Photographer
Phillip Oliver Hobson
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
July 1956
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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