The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The British landing ship 'Sir Lancelot' arrived at Port Alma, near Rockhampton, at the weekend, after a 10-day trip from Singapore, carrying 400 troops of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Troops lined the rails of the 5,600-ton vessel for a glimpse of the Queensland port... for most their first Australian visit. They are bound for the Australian Army's Shoalwater Bay Training Area, about 60 miles north of Rockhampton, to take part in "Exercise Piping Shrike", with the South Australian based 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. About 200 troops of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry had already arrived in Australia, and the latest arrivals brought the total to more than 600. They were met by the Exercise Director, Major-General Mackay, who is Commander of 1st Australian Division, based in Sydney. Major-General Mackay was formerly the Australian Commander in Vietnam. "Piping Shrike" is designed to train members of Australia's 3rd Battalion and supporting units in limited warefare in a South-East Asian setting with the British troops acting as a controlled enemy. After loading the troops, vehicles and stores, three Sioux helicopters, were flown directly from the ship to Manifold in Shoalwater Bay area. Located at the southern end of the rugged Clinton Peninsula, Manifold is the base for "Exercise Piping Shrike". After the departure of the helicopters, a convoy of more than 40 vehicles moved off to the exercise area.
British Army Gurkha troops have begun arriving at Rockhampton in Central Queensland for the land phase of Exercise "Coral Sands". More than 5-hundred of the Singapore-based troops will be engaged in t
Two C-130 Hercules Transports brought 142 soldiers of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment to Rockhampton, Queensland this week on their way to take part in an exercise in the Australian Army's Sho
Rockhampton, Qld. March 1967. Queensland based troops from the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), board Caribou aircraft at Rockhampton during a mass airlift of troops, vehicles, gun
The Australian Army went on show in two far flung corners of the world recently - in Saigon, Vietnam and Rockhampton, Queensland. To mark Vietnamese National Day, 100 Australian soldiers and members o
New Zealand soldiers move into vase area at Shoalwater Bay and erect "hootchies". Sioux helicopter of 1 Aviation Regtiment lands for NZ familiarisation. Soldiers briefed by the exercise director Major
A month long Army exercise involving troops from Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand ended in North Queensland this week. For many of the New Zealanders it was their first training in rainfore
