Description
South Vietnam. A wounded North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldier receives medical attention from company medical orderly Corporal Brian Mills of Townsville, QLD. The NVA soldier was wounded in an ambush set by D Company, 6RAR/NZ (ANZAC) (the ANZAC battalion comprising 6 Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment and a component from 1 Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), during its first operation on the battalion's second tour of duty in South Vietnam. In the ambush six NVA soldiers were killed and two captured. The wounded soldier was later evacuated to hospital by helicopter.
This photograph is a landscape format cropped version of image BEL/69/0383/VN.
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Accession Number
P10834.001
Photographer
Sergeant Christopher John Bellis
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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