The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant Michael (Mike) Coleridge (second from left), Army Public Relations Photographer, filming unidentified soldiers with Vietnamese locals. He enlisted in the Australian Army in Darwin in 1957 and served in Malaya with the Royal Australian Artillery. While in Malaya, he privately made films for the British Army using his own cameras, and, on his return to Australia in 1963, he was appointed as a public relations photographer. He went to Vietnam in late 1966, and, like other army public relations photographers, operated quite independently, at times having to subsidise his work by acquiring his own film (especially colour film, which the army did not provide) and making his own way around. He also established his own makeshift darkroom at the Australian base at Nui Dat. He returned to Australia in November 1967 after one year in Vietnam.
Informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant Michael (Mike) Coleridge, Army Public Relations Photographer, filming an unidentified soldier standing next to an aircraft. He enlisted in the Australian Army in
Informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant Michael (Mike) Coleridge, Army Public Relations Photographer, lying on the ground filming an unidentified soldier. He enlisted in the Australian Army in Darwin in
Informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant Michael (Mike) Coleridge, Army Public Relations Photographer, bent over a camera on a tripod, filming an unidentified soldier. He enlisted in the Australian Army
Informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant Michael (Mike) Coleridge (left), Army Public Relations Photographer, filming an unidentified soldier standing in a tent reinforced with sandbags. He enlisted in t
Informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant Michael (Mike) Coleridge, Army Public Relations Photographer, with a camera around his neck. He enlisted in the Australian Army in Darwin in 1957 and served in Ma
Informal portrait of 4410203 Sergeant Michael (Mike) Coleridge (right), Army Public Relations Photographer, chatting to an unidentified soldier with a Vietnamese local. He enlisted in the Australian A
