The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), which is with 1 Commonwealth Division in Korea, recently opened a school to train NCOs. Here some of the first students to attend the course are having a lesson on the Bren gun. Lying behind the guns are 13128 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Bernard Vincent Corrigan (left) of Ascot, Qld, and L Cpl Ron Nelson of Lakemba, NSW. L Cpl Corrigan has been in Korea for eight months as a member of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), and L Cpl Nelson arrived with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) four months ago. Behind them is instructor-student 6845 Corporal (Cpl) Rex William Murfet of Launceston Tasmania. Cpl Murfet is attached to Headquarters, 28 British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade.
Reinforcing a bunker entrance in the Australian positions on the Korean truce line is 34258 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Jack Fahey, of Morwell, Vic. L Cpl Fahey has been serving with the 1st Battalion, Th
Keeping their eye in with the Owen Machine Carbine are Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Ronald (Ron) 'Beans' Honey (left), and Private (Pte) Frederick Benjamin (Fred) 'Penny' Pennington of the 1st battalion, Th
Leading an Australian patrol into the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) on the Korean truce line is 16240 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Allan Raymond Bridgehouse, of Murwillumbah, NSW. Here he drinks from his water b
6482 Corporal (Cpl) Thomas James Joyce, of Launceston, Tas, taking down a street sign that reads 'Hobart Road' in the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) camp in Korea.
27270 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Neal Clarrie Camm of Sydney, NSW, churns up the water during a training swim at Seoul. Neal left his civilian job as an apprentice carpenter and joined the army 18 months
In spite of what Napoleon said, an army marches on its feet, and if the army happens to be in Korea, it finds that marching is very hard on boots. A unit's bootmaker is a very important soldier in a l
