The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Three soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) take a look to see what the Communist (North Korean or Chinese) forces are doing in the Demilitarised Zone on the Korean truce line. They are standing in one of the old bunkers occupied by men of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) at the end of the Korean War, and the nearest Communist outposts are about a thousand yards away. From left to right are: 41653 Private (Pte) William (Bill) Francis D'Arcy, of Port Pirie, SA; 34524 Corporal William (Bill) Bernard Everon, of Melbourne, Vic; and 12940 Pte George Mehonoshen, of Brisbane, Qld. This series of photographs (MELJ1049 to MELJ1054) is the first to be taken inside the Commonwealth sector of the DMZ.
An Australian patrol ploughs through muddy water and the head high grass of an abandoned paddy field in the middle of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) on the Korean truce line. Leading the patrol is 34524
Big Queenslander, 12590 Corporal (Cpl) Thomas John Kenny of Babinda, Qld and the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), leads an Australian patrol into the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) which
A tin hat makes an improvised shower for 13492 Private (Pte) Michael 'Flash' Pearce, of Mount Morgan, Qld,and of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), during a gruelling patrol into
The Communist (North Korean and Chinese) outposts are only a thousand yards away from this Australian patrol moving through the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) on the Korean truce line. Both the Communists a
34524 Lance Corporal William Bernard (Bill) Everon ((front, right), of Richmond, Vic, passes his water bottle to American tank commander, Sergeant L Chavis, of San Jose, California, USA, during a batt
41653 Private (Pte) William Francis (Bill) D'Arcy, of Port Pirie, SA, is a member of an Australian truce line patrol in Korea. Pte D'Arcy has been in Korea for seven months with the 1st Battalion, The
