The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Shoalwater Bay training area, north of Rockhampton. They are taking part in the seventh interchange between the Australian and New Zealand armies in the exercise Tasman series. The New Zealanders, after Customs and Quarantine clearance, moved to Shoalwater Bay by RAAF Caribou aircraft. Before the start of the exercise, the New Zealanders carried out familiarisation training with Australian M113 armoured personnel carriers and RAAF Iroquois helicopters; they also took part in lead-in operations to allow them to get used to the country in which they are working. In the exercise the New Zealanders are operating with 9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Reginment, from Woodside, SA. The battalion is being prepared for service in South Vietnam later this year. The New Zealanders arrived in the tropical heat of Rockhampton after leaving Christchurch with its 20 degrees of frost earlier in the day. The Exercise ends on September 20. (Also identified: Brigadier "Pat" Paterson, head of NZ Defence Liaison Staff, Canberra, ACT)
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
Getting the low-down on eating with chopsticks is Cadet David Manttan, left, of Blackall, Queensland, from the Rockhampton Grammar School Cadet unit. His tutors are Private Peter Preston of Guildford
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
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
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
Anti-guerilla operations are the theme of Exercise Phoenix being held by the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, at Tin Can Bay, Queensland, until September 16. The Battalion exercise is a prelu
