The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
6 Battalion RAR held a memorial parade in memory of eighteen of their members who died in action against the Viet Cong at Long Tan. Chaplain R Thompson read the first lesson and led the troops reciting the Lord's Prayer. Delta Company Platoon Sergeant Ron Buick read the second lesson. A group of United States of America artillery men also mourn the loss of their allied comrades. The Vietnamese Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Thieu addressed the parade. After his address he presented a plaque to the Task Force which he handed to Brigadier Jackson. He then presented personal gifts to Lieutenant Colonel Townsend and to OC Delta Company Major H Smith and to seventeen other members of Delta and Alpha Companies, the 1st APC Squadron, 1st Field Regiment and 161 Battery of RNZA.
Australian soldiers in Vietnam this week took time out from the grim war to honour fallen comrades and men of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, were at the parade ground best for the cerem
Saigon: More than 200 Vietnamese Government, diplomats, service chiefs and church leaders gathered on the lawn in front of the Australian Ambassador's residence on Rue Pasteur to pay homage in a memor
The first eleven scenes were taken in the area of the bloodiest and most decisive battle yet fought by Australian troops in Vietnam to this date. The men shown clearing the area of captured Viet Cong
The Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation, the highest United States award that could be given to a military unit, was presented to "D" Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, at a P
A crippled children's home in Malacca, Malaysia, has been the scene of a private civic aid programme carried out by wives of Australian soldiers serving in that theatre. The Army wives recently presen
In a simple ceremony at the 12th Field Regiment's base at Nui Dat, Australian and New Zealand gunners remembered their members who had been killed in action during the Regiment's tour of duty in Vietn
