The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 contraband as the truck prepares to head out through the barbed wire gates of a village in the Kuala Kangsar region of Perak. 2RAR are conducting a food denial operation against Communist terrorists who are known to be operating in the area and every person and vehicle is searched before entering or leaving the village.
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
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 pas
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
Unidentified men of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), enjoying a hot cup of tea from an urn which has been brought up to them in the back of a light truck. 2RAR are undertaking a fo
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
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
