The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Haramura area, Honshu, Japan, c. 1950-08-04. Members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), relax among the exposed roots of a tree on a rocky hillside during a break in a map-reading lesson. Most of the soldiers are smoking cigarettes, while lying on the ground around them are a few maps. The soldiers are at Haramura, BCOF's main field training centre, to take part in Exercise Experimental in preparation for 3RAR's move to Korea. (Donor I. Robertson)
Haramura area, Honshu, Japan, c. 1950-08-04. Members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sit among the exposed roots of a tree on a rocky hillside as they listen to a map-readi
Haramura area, Honshu, Japan, c. 1950-08-04. Two members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), squat on the side of a steep hill overlooking the Haramura countryside as they pore
Haramura, Honshu, Japan, c. 1950-08-05. A group of soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), relax on a set of steps outside a barracks building at Haramura, BCOF's main f
Haramura, Honshu, Japan, c. 1950-08-05. Two members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), occupy a dugout from which one of the soldiers has been firing a Bren gun mounted on a t
Haramura area, Honshu, Japan, c. 1950-08-05. Members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sit in the back of a military truck, part of a convoy, during a pause in a road journey
Haramura, Honshu, Japan, c. 1950-08-03. Members of C Company, the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), unload equipment from trailers on their arrival at Haramura, BCOF's main field tr
