The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Armed with an Owen gun, this unidentified Lance Corporal (centre), of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), carefully checks the identity papers of rubber plantation workers as they pass through the barbed wire gates to a village in the Kuala Kangsar area. All people and vehicles passing through the village gates are searched for food and other contraband as part of a 2RAR food denial operation against known Communist terrorists who are known to be operating in the area.
5/2840 Private R J 'Rio' Riordan, of Claremont, WA (left standing in truck), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), and Malayan Police Officers search trucks for food supplies and other
In the cold light of dawn and assisted by the lights of their trucks, unidentified men from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), conduct a search and check of rubber tappers at the bar
Two unidentified soldiers from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), and a Malayan Policewoman undertake gate checking duty of a group of people at the entry point to a village in the K
Armed with an Owen gun, 5/2840 Private (Pte) R J 'Rio' Riordan, of Claremont, WA (standing in truck right), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), ensures that no illegal food supplies l
An unidentified soldier of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) (left), checks under the bonnet of a car which has been stopped at a roadside checkpoint. 2RAR are conducting a food deni
Armed with his Owen gun, 1/1836 Private (Pte) (later Corporal) Stan Arnold, 24, of Cullamulla, Qld, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), lies back on a hammock as he takes a two hour b
