The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The spring thaw set in just before the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), prepares to leave Korea. The swollen Imjin River deposited huge blocks of ice inside the 1RAR truce line camp. Taking a look at the unusual scene with a friend from the US Army is 13435 Private Alan Keith Hoare (left), of Hawthorne, Qld. The battalion will be travelling home to Australia on the troopship New Australia, after two years' service in Korea, and should berth in Sydney on 5 April 1956.
The spring thaw set in just before the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), prepares to leave Korea. The swollen Imjin River deposited huge blocks of ice inside the 1RAR truce line cam
The spring thaw set in just before the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), prepares to leave Korea. The swollen Imjin River deposited huge blocks of ice inside the 1RAR truce line cam
The spring thaw set in just before the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), prepares to leave Korea. The swollen Imjin River deposited huge blocks of ice inside the 1RAR truce line cam
The spring thaw set in just before the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), prepares to leave Korea. The swollen Imjin River deposited huge blocks of ice inside the 1RAR truce line cam
The spring thaw set in just before the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), prepares to leave Korea. The swollen Imjin River deposited huge blocks of ice inside the 1RAR truce line cam
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
