The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View of the Australian Badcoe Club, Back Beach, Vung Tau, Vietnam. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collected by 2784336 Signalman (Sig) Stuart Lindsay Weller, 104 Signal Squadron, relating to his service in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968. Sig Weller notes: "The construction of The Badcoe Club began around mid 1967 and I visited The Beachcomber several times before The Badcoe was opened. Once The Badcoe was opened, we Australians tended to congregate there rather than in The Beachcomber. Sometime after I’d left the country, The Badcoe installed a swimming pool and also accommodation for Australians to have in country R & C [rest and convalescence] there rather than have them go into Vung Tau itself ... The undercover balcony was a great place to sit and forget that shortly you had to return to Nui Dat. The room downstairs was used to store surfboards and other equipment they held for our use. The section of lawn in front of the left-hand portion of The Badcoe contained a small stage where shows were performed. "
Soldiers and Vietnamese touts gather outside the American Beachcomber Bar at Back Beach, Vung Tau; no Vietnamese were permitted inside. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collected by 2784
Soldiers relax with drinks in the beer garden at the American Beachcomber Bar at Back Beach, Vung Tau, Vietnam. In the centre is a young waitress in a neat red and white uniform. One of 477 colour 35m
Australian servicemen watch a performance at the Badcoe Club at the ALSG (Australian Logistical Support Group) at Vung Tau. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collected by 2784336 Signalma
Musicians perform a consert at the Badcoe Club at the ALSG (Australian Logistical Support Group) at Vung Tau for Australian servicemen. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collected by 2784
Portrait of Katrina Chijoff, winner of the 1967 Queensland RSL "Girl in a Million" pageant, taken at the Badcoe Club on Back Beach at Vung Tau, Vietnam. Chijoff visited troops as part of the Queenslan
View of the main bar in the beer garden at the American bar on Back Beach at Vung Tau, The Beachcomber, featuring a painted seascape wall mural. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collecte
