The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Australian Army Civil Affairs Section in South Vietnam provided schoolrooms in the Vung Tau School Academy and at a school in the village of Ban Binh about ten miles away. Both locations are within the Australian Task Force area. An opening ceremony at the Vung Tau project was attended by the Task Force Commander, Major General Kenneth Mackay and other Australian Officers, officials of the government of South Vietnam and local identities. After the ceremony children entered and inspected their eight new classrooms, which had been converted from garages and accommodated over 350 pupils. Another opening ceremony was held at the Ban Binh project. Identified personnel: Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) L C Chambers Commander 1st Australian Logistic Support Group, Major M W Gray Civic Action Officer, Lt Col Ung, Chaplain Terry Duggan of Sydney, NSW.
At a ceremony in Vung Tau, three visiting members of the Defend Australia Committee presented portable radios to the junior boys military academy. The Commander of the 1st Australian Logistic Support
War orphans and refugees will be housed in this orphanage in Baria, capital of Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. A flag raising ceremony marked the opening of the orphanage which was built as a result of A
A Vietnamese High School library, sponsored from public subscription in Australia, was opened last week by the Commander, Australian Force Vietnam, Major-General A. L. MacDonald. The library is part o
Vung Tau, South Vietnam. February 1972. Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) in Vietnam, Colonel P. J. Greville (right), receives a gift from the Chairman of the Vung Tau city Council, Mr
The first project in a new phase of the pacification programme in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam was opened recently. Under the new programme units of the Task Force other than the Civil Affairs Un
Two miles from the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat is the resettlement hamlet of Ap Suoi Nghe. Twelve months ago this land was a tract of matted jungle and then the Australian Civil Affairs Unit
