The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Songju (Sungjoo-Wulhang), Korea, 1950-10-05. Carrying their full kit, members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), line up ready to board trucks (not in view) which will transport them to Taegu on the first leg of their journey to Kimpo. The soldier in the foreground (left) may be 5/7509 Captain Bernard Shelley O'Dowd, commander of Headquarters (HQ) Company. Sticking up into the air at centre right is a tall pole that is probably used to support a radio aerial. (Donor I. Robertson)
Korea, 1950-10-05. A US Army 6x6 2.5 ton truck transports a load of soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), from Songju to Taegu airfield, from where they will be flown
Korea, 1950-10. Three members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), with their jeep, probably on the road from Songju to Taegu airfield. The soldiers are, left to right: 4/643 Pr
Korea, 1950-10. A jeep (right) from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), passes a wrecked Russian T34/85 medium tank lying on its side in a ditch beside the road from Songju to Tae
Yokohama, Honshu, Japan, 1948-03-03. At the British Commonwealth War Cemetery, Australian soldiers serving with BCOF act as pallbearers for the coffin carrying the dead body of Lieutenant Colonel H.E.
Honshu, Japan, 1950-08. In full kit, members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), make their way along a narrow track up a rocky hillside during a route march. The soldiers are
Probably Songju, Korea, c. 1950-10-05. Members of the Machine Gun Section, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), most of them bare-chested in the midday sun, gather around a campfire o
