The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
When you ask a man in a digger hat where he comes from, you don't expect an answer in broad Scots, 'Ma Hame is in beautiful Queensland'. But if the digger is Private (Pte) Jock Smith, formerly of Toll Cross, Glasgow, Scotland, but now of Brisbane, that is the answer you will get. Pte Smith is 28 and served in the British Army before joining the Australian Army four years ago. He is a member of the Pioneer Platoon, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). (Original British Commonwealth Forces Korea (BCFK) Public Relations caption). Here Pte Smith is prepares a charge in a gravel quarry in Korea.
310862 Private (Pte) Kenneth William (Bill) Costley, formerly of Barrow-in-Furness, but now of Albury, NSW, lays a charge of gun cotton ready to soften up a face in a gravel quarry in Korea. Pte Costl
All army installations in Korea have to be well protected against thieves, and here an Australian soldier and a KATCOM work together erecting a concertina fence around the Gallipoli Camp of the 1st Ba
For weeks Communist propaganda notices have been left where UN troops could find them. A soldier from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), holds a notice which reads 'Think, that y
Korea. c. 1951. For weeks Communist propaganda notices have been left where UN troops could find them. The three being held by unidentified soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regime
Studio portrait of ex-Prisoner of War (POW) 6014 Private (Pte) Percy Edwin Ford, 12th Battalion, from Hobart, Tasmania, who enlisted on 1 May 1916 at the age of 21. Pte Ford embarked for overseas on 8
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX3048 Sergeant Richard (Dick) Sydney Turner, 6 Division Supply Column, Australian Army Service Corps. After service in Africa, Turner was captur