The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
MEN OF 10 PLATOON, D COMPANY, 8TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (8RAR), OCCUPIED AN AMBUSH SITE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS PER DAY, IN HALF-PATROL LOTS. THE HALF RESTING WOULD MOVE TO A POSITION ONE AND A HALF KILOMETRES TO THE REAR, PICTURED HERE.
MEN OF 10 PLATOON, D COMPANY, 8TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (8RAR), READY TO GO OUT ON AMBUSH. THE PLATOON WENT OUT AS TWO HAVLES, WITH AN EXTRA GPMG M60 (GENERAL PURPOSE MACHINE GUN),
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Peter Derrick of Dandenong, Vic, Corporal Lindsay Craig of Brookton, WA, L Cpl Bob Venables of Ingham, Qld, and Second Lieuteannt B
During Operation Atherton, members of 1 Platoon, A Company, 8RAR, move out of the way a tree that has been chopped down to allow a dust-off helicopter to lower a harness chair known as a jungle penetr
During Operation Atherton, members of 1 Platoon, A Company, 8RAR, move out of the way a tree that has been chopped down to allow a dust-off helicopter to lower a harness chair known as a jungle penetr
NT. Oct 1942. This lookout post is manned twenty four hours per day and is in direct telephone contact with the anti-aircraft heavy machine gun battery command post.
2790913 Private Graeme Colin Piltz, the signaller of 1 Platoon, A Company, 8RAR, has his SLR rifle at the ready as he and his fellow platoon members move through tall grass among rubber trees on what
