The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian transport drivers with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) in Korea, have their problems all the year round. In the winter, frozen road surfaces make driving a hazardous occupation. In the spring the road beds thaw and burst through the track. Now, in the rainy season, roads wash away or disappear beneath the swirling waters of the Imjin River, which can rise 25 feet overnight. Here a driver stands with his hands on his hips and looks at the road disappearing into the Imjin River.
Australian transport drivers with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) in Korea, have their problems all the year round. In the winter, frozen road surfaces make driving a hazardous
When the rainy season started in Korea recently the Imjin River rose 25 feet overnight, and cut off a company of soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), camped on the far
When the rainy season started in Korea recently the Imjin River rose 25 feet overnight, and cut off a company of soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), camped on the far
After floodwaters hit the camp of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) in Korea, 35259 Private (Pte) William McKay (Bill) Chalmers, of Norwell, Vic, used a river height indicator as
It's not often that ice floes block a road, but this is what happened in Korea when the spring thaw set in, and the swollen Imjin River deposited huge blocks of ice on the road in the truce line camp
It is the rainy season in Korea, and also the season when typhoons come swirling across the Yellow Sea to rip the roofs off buildings. So 13410 Private (Pte) Bevan 'Pedro' Pedersen, helped by a Korean
