The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea, c. 1951-02. Interior view of 'Pandora's Box', the caravan used as a mobile office and sleeping quarters by 2/37507 Lieutenant Colonel Ian Bruce Ferguson, Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). A chair and desk or table stand at left, and behind it a bunk with kit stowed beneath it. Above the bunk are two wooden shelves on which are placed a slouch hat, gloves, books and some bottles and tins of food. A radio transceiver sits on a roughly-made wooden cupboard (right), with a situation map pinned up on the wall behind it. In the foreground (right) is a director's chair with a newspaper resting on it. A metal box sits on the floor behind the chair. The floor is covered with matting. 'Pandora's Box' had to be destroyed about two months later in the withdrawal from Kapyong. (Donor I. Robertson)
Uijongbu, Korea, 1950-12. Lieutenant General H. C. H. (Red Robbie) Robertson (left) demonstrates the use of a Zenith All Wave Radio Receiver which he has just presented to 2/37507 Lieutenant Colonel I
Korea, c. 1950-11. Private Michelle (? Michels), batman to 2/37507 Lieutenant Colonel Ian Bruce Ferguson, Commanding Officer (CO) of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), leans casu
Korea, c. 1951-02. Dressed in traditional clothing, a husband and wife pair of Korean peasants sits outside their farmhouse and extract or sort seeds from a crop they have grown. The man is sitting on
A corner of the Dental Surgery with chair, instruments and cupboard, at AIF Headquarters.
An orderly's bedroom at No 1 Australian General Hospital. A picture of a palm tree and pyramid is above the bed and a chair with a blanket draped over it is in front of a cupboard.
North Korea, c. 1950-11. In a valley below a wooded hill stands a village in which part of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), is camped. In the foreground, a battalion soldier we
