The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 the Exercise. The Gurkhas will take the part of an "enemy" force which has invaded Australia. The Gurkhas arrived by air direct from Singapore in RAF Hercules transports and immediately left for the "battle-zone" fifty miles north of Rockhampton. The Gurkhas are "diggin-in" in preparation for the assault landing against them at Shoalwater Bay next Sunday (AM, October 6). They will face an amphibious landing by 2-thousand British Royal Marines, now aboard a fleet of warships approaching from the Coral Sea. In the past, men of the Gurkha Rifles have exercised with Australian and British troops in Malaysia.
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
Preparations for the forthcoming five nation exercise, code-named Bersatu Padu, have started with a Battalion group exercise in Malaya for Singapore based troops. Centering around movement, deployment
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
Two RAAF Mirage jet fighter squadrons at the RAAF base at Butterworth are in readiness for the operational phase of the five-nation military exercise Bersatu Padu. Nos. 3 and 75 Squadrons will play a
The Malaysian based 28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade has just completed a rugged jungle exercise, code named "Carnivorous" in West Malaysia. The exercise was held in the Batu Pahat area of Johore St
Conducting an artillery sheet in Malaysia is not without its drawbacks as Gunners of Australia's 107 Field Battery discovered during an exercise which has just ended. Code-named Last Journey, the Exer
