The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Relaxing with a cigarette and his feet up displaying the soles of his jungle boots, 4/1282 Private (Pte) John Fleming, 24, of Gladstone, SA, 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company (D Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), awaits the arrival of a RAF Bristol 171 Sycamore helicopter that will airlift him and other 10 Pl reinforcements into the mountain area of Sungei Siput, where he will join up with the main body of 10 Pl to continue the hunt for a Communist terrorist group they have been chasing for the last 12 days. Pte Fleming is armed with a Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine and he has been in Malaya for 19 days but has only been with D Coy for the last three days. He also served in Korea with 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), in 1954.
Informal portrait ofPrivate (Pte) Ray Hutchind, of Port Arlington, Vic, 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), who has been on the trail of a group of Comm
Unidentified men of 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) (foreground), watch as other men rush in to unload supplies from a Bristol Sycamore helicopter. T
Unidentified men of 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), anxiously watch a RAF Bristol 171 Sycamore helicopter make its descent onto a small jungle landi
Viewed through the clear nose of a RAF Bristol 171 Sycamore helicopter is a small landing zone (LZ) where it will land to deliver men and supplies to 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The
Private Doug Sawyer, of Willston Heights, Qld, 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), sits in the shadow of a RAF Bristol 171 Sycamore helicopter, resting
Looking tired and unshaven, 2/10030 Private (Pte) Pat Gaughan, of Sydney, NSW, 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), has been on the trail of a group of C
