The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
With his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine slung over his shoulder and silhouetted against the Perak River, an unidentified sentry from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), watches a pair of moored river launches as part of 2RAR's food denial operation against Communist terrorists who are known to be operating in the area.
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
After a long day of patrolling, Private (Pte) Jim Head, of Ingham, NSW, D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), cleans his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle c
Informal portrait of 1/3274, M Rattray, of Sandgate, Qld, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), propped against a tree reading his mail from home and smoking a cigarette. He has just r
Informal portrait of an unidentified Australian soldier standing with his Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbine at the ready, guarding his mates from 7 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Ba
An unidentified group of soldiers from A Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), washing and shaving by the side of a creek which runs through a rubber plantation. They are clean
