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Horseshoe Hill, South Vietnam. Septemeber 1969. Lieutenant (Lt) Lochiel Maclean of Canberra, ACT, receives a haircut from a Vietnamese Army barber while sitting in the outdoors during a break from a training session. Lt Maclean, a member of 6RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), was one of a company of soldiers helping retrain troops of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). The ARVN soldier is a member of the 3/43 ARVN Battalion. Four battalions of the 18th Division of ARVN are each undergoing a six-week retraining period with Australian troops from 1969-08-12 to 1969-09-20.
Horseshoe Hill, South Vietnam. 1969-09. Private (Pte) Dick Bradley of Northbridge, NSW, on duty with a South Vietnamese soldier manning a .50mm calibre machine gun near Dat Do just south of Nui Dat. P
Horseshoe Hill, South Vietnam. 1969-09. Private (Pte) Dick Bradley of Northbridge, NSW, on duty with a South Vietnamese soldier manning a .50mm calibre machine gun near Dat Do just south of Nui Dat. P
Horseshoe Hill, South Vietnam. 1969-09. Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Mel Hawksworth of Lavarack, Qld, instructs soldiers of 3/43 Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Battalion on barbed wire defenc
Horseshoe Hill, South Vietnam. 1969-09. South Vietnamese soldiers are given instructions on how to load an M79 grenade launcher by Private (Pte) Ron Jones of Darlington, WA. Pte Jones of B Company, 6R
Horseshoe Hill, South Vietnam. 1969-09. Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Mel Hawksworth of Lavarack, Qld, instructs soldiers of 3/43 Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Battalion on barbed wire defenc
Horseshoe Hill, South Vietnam. 1969-09. Private (Pte) Ray Ellis of Oxley, Qld, shows South Vietnamese soldiers how to load an M60 machine gun. Pte Ellis, a member of 6RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battal