The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The first project in a new phase of the pacification programme in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam was opened recently. Under the new programme units of the Task Force other than the Civil Affairs Unit are carrying out building projects in the villages and hamlets of the province. The first of these projects was to build a hamlet meeting room for Ving Trung hamlet in Binh Gia village about five miles north of the Task Force base at Nui Dat. The work was carried out by men of 1st Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, who lived in the village while carrying out the task. The opening was a gala occasion. Hamlet and village officials turned up in force, the area was bedecked with flags, and the flags of South Vietnam and Australia were ceremonially raised. From the Task Force, the Commander, Brigadier S. P. Weir of Canberra, ACT, the Commanding Officer of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, Lt Col Peter Gration of Torrens, ACT, and the CO, 1st Field Regiment, Lt Col Craig Beck of Brisbane, Qld, were present. The District Chief of the Duc Thanh District, in which Bing Gia is located, Major Tran Van No, thanked the Australians for building the meeting room, and said it was proof that Australians were not in Vietnam just to fight but to play a part in rebuilding the community. Brigadier Weir said he believed the project was a real step forward in the pacification programme and he was pleased for the Task Force to help the people of the village, who had done so much to help themselves.
Vinh Trung, South Vietnam. 1969-12. The Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), Brigadier (Brig) S. P. Weir of Braddon, ACT, greets a Vietnamese citizen at the opening of a meeting hall. Th
The village of Ngai Giao, seven miles north of the Australian Task Force Headquarters at Nui Dat, was devastated during heavy fighting between South Vietnamese soldiers and an estimated company of Vie
An uplift to education in the South Vietnam village of Hoa Long has been provided by the Army's Civil Affairs Unit and troops of the 1st Australian Task Force. Both Units are based at Nui Dat in Vietn
In a village near Vung Tau, south east of Saigon South Vietnam, more than 3,000 men women and children who have fled the Viet Cong, received Australian aid under the civil affairs programme. Dentists
The Minister for the Army, Mr Phillip Lynch, lost no time during his visit to Vietnam in meeting officers and men serving in the theatre and with familiarising himself with Phuoc Tuy province, home of
In a combined Australian and Vietnamese project, the civil affairs unit with the Australian Task Force in Vietnam, has been given the task of building 139 houses in the Long Dien district. The houses
