The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Since the people of Ngai Giao arrived in the area some years ago they have had neither a market place nor an adequate water supply system. Today thanks to the work of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit based at Nui Dat, they have both. At a ceremony attended by the villagers a new $9,000 market place was handed over to the acting province chief Pham Van Kha, by Lt Col Kevin Latchford, the commanding officer of the Australian Civil Affairs unit. Previously the villagers used to trade by the side of the road without any overhead protection from the weather something which concrete and iron building will now give them. The Deputy Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force, Col. Don Dunstan and the acting Province Chief cut the ribbon officially opening the market building and after a short inspection the formal signing over of the project was completed by Lt Col Latchford and the acting province chief. From the market place, the official party drove a short distance to a new Australian windmill which has just been completed by the Civil Affairs Unit. Whereas the market place was constructed by Vietnamese contractors under the supervision of the Australians, the windmill was assembled by engineers of the Civil Affairs unit and reticulation was provided to six outlets in the village. Until the windmill came into operation, the people of the village relied on one well for their water needs. Now with a 5000 gallon storage tank it is expected that the people will have an adequate water supply which will last all year round. the windmill is the first of 12 which will be erected in Phuoc Tuy province by the Australians as part of their civic aid program. It took one month to complete. Already the second mill in the project is under way. The Small hamlet of Ap Suoi Nghe, within two miles of the Task Force base at Nui Dat, has surveyed and construction work has begun on the reticulation scheme for the village.
Two miles from the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat is the resettlement hamlet of Ap Suoi Nghe. Twelve months ago this land was a tract of matted jungle and then the Australian Civil Affairs Unit
The Commanding Officer of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit in Vietnam, Lieutenant-Colonel K. W. Latchford was interviewed at Long Toan village by Major E. Ross-Smith recently. Lieutenant-Colonel
Australian soldiers in Vietnam are preparing to hand over their ambitious village water reticulation programme to the people of Phuoc Tuy Province. Men of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit are now
The windmill, all but vanished from the American landscape, is suddenly appearing in small hamlets in South Vietnam. The First Australian Civil Affairs Unit, part of the 1st Australian Task Force base
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 1968. The Commanding Officer of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Kevin Latchford of Mosman, NSW, signs a book at the official openi
The Vietnamese people of Long Xuyen hamlet in southern Phuoc Tuy Province have a new market by courtesy of the Australian people. Long Xuyen's market was built by local labour with funds provided by t
