The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea, c. 1951-02. Working on a trestle table at a camp kitchen set up in the open, Private Farrow (left), a cook with C Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), shapes the pastry base for a pie he is making in a baking dish. A rolling pin and a large mound of dough rest on the table next to him (left), while several opened tins stand on the other end of the table. A basin and a large tin rest on the ground beneath the table, and a large bag of flour stands next to one of its legs (left). Sticking up into the air at rear are the flues of a field oven which has been set up beside an embankment. The soldier standing (right) and smoking a cigarette is Corporal 'Spike' Howard of 3RAR's Signal Platoon. The two men kneeling on the ground (right) and opening ration boxes may be Koreans, members of the South Korean Service Corps. Several of the soldiers' rifles are leaning up against the embankment in the background at extreme left. (Donor I. Robertson)
Korea, c. 1951-02. At a camp kitchen set up in the open, Private Farrow, a cook with C Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), presses dough into a large baking dish to form the
Korea, c. 1951-01. Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), go about their chores after a mess parade at a battalion camp set up in a snow-covered landscape. A soldier (cen
Korea, c. 1950-10. A field kitchen set up in the open at a campsite occupied by the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), in the Korean countryside. The twin flues of a field oven stick
Korea, c. 1950-10. Enjoying some rest and relaxation, a group of soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), lies on the ground in the sun. One of the soldiers is reading a
Korea, 1951. Working at a trestle table at a camp or bivouac site in the countryside, a cook from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), prepares a batch of scones for baking. In the
At left, the cookhouse for A Squadron, 3 Cavalry Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), at the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) base. On the verandah of the building are large metal trough
