The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Vietnam War service of 3905024 Captain Robin Holroyd Parker, Headquarters, Australian Army Force Vietnam, Saigon, 1965-1968.
Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of a typed eight-page memoir of Parker's service as Force Paymaster to the Australian Army in Vietnam from June 1965 to February 1966 and his prior and subsequent career as a civilian clerk, paymaster and administration officer to the army and Australian Defence Force. Parker describes his National Service with the Australian Army in the 1950s, his civilian career leading up to Vietnam, and his selection as the first Force Paymaster for the Australian Army in Vietnam. He writes of establishing the cash office in Saigon, his interactions and friendship with the local Vietnamese, of coming under fire in Bien Hoa, working with the United States forces, and his return to Australia after falling ill. Parker also writes of working as the army paymaster in HMAS Sydney (1944-1973) during a voyage to Vietnam in 1968, of his subsequent career in Australia, Singapore and the United States as a public servant, and a return trip to Vietnam in 2010.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 34425 Corporal Reginald Clarence Parker, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia, 1940-1945. Wallet 1 of 2 – Contains two folders of correspondenc
Two original diaries (8 February 1942 to 17 April 1944) written by Lieutenant Colonel Phillip White Parker, relating to his Second World War service in Malaya with the 2/10th Baluchis, 11 Indian Divis
Collection relating to the First World War service of 16027 Sapper Gilbert Alexander Parker, 1st Wireless Squadron, AIF, Australia and Middle East, 1916-1918. Collection consists of a maroon-coloure
Collection relating to the Gulf War, United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq, United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), and Operation Slipper service of O130092 Commander Ian Parker CS
Collection relating to the First World War service of Sapper Cecil Parker Ashdown, 14th Field Company Engineers, in France. Collection consists of a letter dated 17 July 1916 by Cecil Ashdown to his
Collection relating to the Vietnam War service of 235092 Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Kevin Eugene Newman, 2 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Vietnam, 1965-1999. The collection consists of e