The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 leave as he searches a truck which is about to depart from a village in the Kuala Kangsar area. Pte Riordan is being assisted by special Constables of the Malayan Police Force. 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. The two Malayan Police Officers standing in the foreground are armed with Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbines.
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
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
6/1059 Private (Pte) Royce Sheriff, of Wynyard, Tas (left), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), stops to chat with Muragiah Asu of the Malayan Police as they patrol the barbed wire ga
With his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine slung over his shoulder, 2/2437 Private (Pte) (later Corporal) J S W 'Bluey' Clark, of Watsons Bay, NSW, 2nd Battalion, The Royal A
With his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine slung over his shoulder, 3/5728 Private (Pte) (later Corporal) John Taylor, of Rosanna, Vic (right), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Austr
As part of their food denial operation against Communist terrorists, unidentified soldiers from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), stop traffic at a roadside checkpoint in Perak. Her
