The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
During August and September this year, the Papua New Guinea Volunteers went into camp near Lae for their annual 14 days of training. The unit the Territory's C.M.F. force was formed in 1951 and is made up of Australians, Papuans, New Guineans, Chinese and people of mixed-race. This year about 500 men from subunits in the main Territory centres - Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Rabual, Wewak, Goroka and Mount Hagen - attended the Camp. They were flown into Lae in Civil airlines and RAAF Caribou Transports. The camp was held on the site of a wartime B.O.D. on the banks of the Bumbu River, close to the Finisterrre Ranges. During the first part of the camp, the troops brushed up on field craft and minor tactics, carried out range shoots with the self loading rifle (SLR), the 3.5 rocket launcher, the O.M.C. (Owen Machine Carbine). and threw grenades. As a special project, the assault pioneers rebuilt a suspension foot-bridge 170 ft long across the Bumbu River. The bridge which gives acess to a Boy Scout camp, was washed away recently in a flash flood. The unit also received its first visit from the Commander P.N.G. Command, Brigadier J.M. Hunter, who arrived in the Territory earlier this year and also from the PNGVR's new Honorary Colonel, Colonel R.R. Cole M.C. who is Commissioner of Police in Papua New Guinea. The culmination of the camp came in a three day counter-insurgency exercise involving the whole battalion. The part of the enemy was played by A Company from Lae whose members know the area well and proved difficult to catch.
The Minister for the Army, Mr Phillip Lynch, opened a new Army barracks at Lae in New Guinea this week (Monday September 30). Igam Barracks built at a cost of nine million dollars, accommodates a numb
During a tour of Army establishments in Papua New Guinea this week, the Minister for the Army, Mr Malcolm Fraser, stopped off at Goroka, in the Eastern Highlands, to meet members of a local detachment
Soldiers based at Murray Barracks, Port Moresby, recently played a major role in the Papua-New Guinea Command's patrol programme during a civic action mission in the Territory's Gulf District. The thi
It was an important moment in the lives of more than 270 young Pacific Islands recruits this week when they graduated from the Army's Papua-New Guinea Training Depot at Goldie River, near Port Moresby
Three Australian Army patrols are currently moving through a large area of the Morobe district of Papua-New Guinea to gain the goodwill of the Kukukuku tribes, once regarded as the most feared people
Thirteen Gurkha soldiers and a British Gurkha officer recently took part in a training exercise in Papua-New Guinea with members of the 1st Battalion, Pacific Islands Regiment. The Gurkhas, members of
