The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Three Sydney girls who are working in Korea for the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA), are meeting some of their fellow Australians while visiting the truce line camp of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). Outside the Officers' Mess are, from left to right: Miss Thea Hood, of Castlecrag, NSW; Captain (Capt) Jim Elbourne, of Strathfield, NSW; Miss Hope Layard, of Lindfield, NSW; Capt Rex Mills, of Brisbane, Qld; Second Lieutenant Donald MacKenzie Bourne, of Werris Creek, NSW; and Miss Irene Hilsinger of Potts Point, NSW. Miss Hood and Miss Hilsinger have been working in Korea since the end of 1952, and Miss Layard has been with UNKRA for twelve months. (Capt Jim Elbourne is probably 2397 Arthur David Elbourne. Capt Rex Mills is probably 2462 Capt Herbert Rex Mills).
An American and two Australians from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) share a water bottle on a tank turret during night exercises near the Korean truce line. They are, left to
The Officer Commanding B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), Captain (Capt) Rex Mills (right), confers with American tank commander, Lieutenant Lyle Niebruegge during a nigh
1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), soon to return to Australia from Korea, is in the process of handing over its responsibilities on the demarkation line facing the Communists to a b
The Deputy Commander of the 1st Commonwealth Division in Korea, 111 Colonel Colin Angus E Fraser, of Melbourne, Vic, watches one of the events at a Christmas fair staged by the Commonwealth troops ser
The 1st Commonwealth Division, soon to be reduced to a Commonwealth Contingent, is handing over it responsibilities on the demarkation line in Korea facing the Communists to a Republic of Korea format
Strathfield, NSW. c 1941 - 1942. Women sewing and knitting in a garden, probably for the Red Cross. Identified are: Miss Mai Hitchcock (right) and Mrs Biddy Wynn (second from right). (Donor E. Gibson)
