P11375.010 Accession Number: P11375.010

Description

Sheltered from sun and rain by a tarpaulin awning, a member of 5 Platoon, B Company, 2RAR/NZ, who is possibly 2785630 Private Robert Thomas Frederick Wickes, sits in a folding picnic chair as he mans a loaded 7.62mm GPMG M60 machine gun at a sandbagged company defensive post on the perimeter of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base. The post is set among young rubber trees and looks outward towards a barbed wire fence (top left and centre).

Details

Accession Number
P11375.010
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Transparency
Physical Description
Format: 35mm
Date Made
1967-1968
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor R. Wickes
Copyright
Copyright unknown - orphaned work

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