The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The first stage of a half million dollar scheme to provide married quarters for Regional Force soldiers in Phuoc Tuy Province was recently completed. Work on the scheme, which is being financed by the Department of Foreign Affairs, has been undertaken by Australian Army engineers from the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, five miles from the Province Capital, Baria. Work on the project began last September with sappers from the 17th Construction Squadron and 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, working alongside soldiers from Regional Force units, to provide, in this first stage, 50 homes, for the families of the local soldiers. The new quarters have been designed by Australians to Vietnamese specifications, and are a vast improvement on shanties in which many of the soldiers' families previously lived, made from flattened tins, old timber, canvas and old artillery shell boxes. The new quarters have electricity, reticulated water and septic systems. At the opening of the first stage recently the Deputy Commander of the Australian Task Force, 1120 Colonel Donald David Weir and the Chief of Staff on the Province Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Ta Van Tan, took the salute as the national anthems of both countries were played and the two national flags fluttered overhead. Both officers praised the success of the joint venture and emphasised the importance of such housing projects. After the keys for the units were handed over the Regional Force soldiers and their families began to move in. In South Vietnam, the first stage of a half million dollar housing project for local soldiers and their families, is completed by Australian soldiers.
Baria, South Vietnam. October 1970. This building in Baria, capital of Phuoc Tuy Province, is one of the first to be completed in a half a million dollar civic action project. Fifty buildings like thi
Baria, South Vietnam. October 1970. At Baria, the capital of Phuoc Tuy Province, Corporal Roger Pritchard, 24, of Upper Fern Tree Gully, Vic, a member of the 17th Construction Group lays bricks at a c
Soldiers of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit are helping to foster a booming chicken raising industry in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. Each week two Australian soldiers drive fourty five mil
Baria, South Vietnam. October 1970. In the Phuoc Tuy Province, five hundred housing units in fifty buildings are being built for Vietnamese Regional Force soldiers and their families at a cost to Aust
The letting of the first major contract for the Army Aviation Centre at Oakey, Qld, was announced recently by the Commonwealth Minister for Works, Senator R.C. Wright. The new Director of the Army Avi
Baria, South Vietnam. October 1970. Housing blocks like these are being built by Australian engineers in Phuoc Tuy Province. Fifty buildings, each with ten home units, are planned to provide married q
