The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea, c. 1950-10. Kneeling on the grass, members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), attend an open air church service conducted by a Roman Catholic chaplain. The padre, wearing a chasuble, is leaning over an altar set up in a makeshift shelter roofed with corrugated iron. Kneeling next to the priest is a soldier serving as an altar boy. In front of the altar, a slender tree trunk laid between two posts serves as a Communion rail.
Korea, c. 1951. At a makeshift altar in the open air, Padre Joe Phillips, a Roman Catholic chaplain, says mass for members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), who are kneeling
HAY, NSW. 1944-01-16. 45005 LIEUTENANT PADRE I. VIRGILIO IACABELLI AN ITALIAN ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, AT THE ALTAR IN THE CHAPEL OF NO. 7 COMPOUND, 16TH GARRISON BATTALION PRISONER OF WAR DETENTION CAM
Stout lengths of timber and sheets of corrugated iron form the roof of a bunker used by the Viet Cong (VC) for storing ammunition, weapons and other military equipment. Inside the bunker, lengths of t
Headquarters building of the Force Communication Center manned by the 1st Signal Troop, part of the Australian Army contribution to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). Taken
Two unidentified Australian soldiers enjoying a smoke in the shelter of their improvised corrugated iron billet behind the lines. The pipe smoking soldier in the foreground is wearing an Australian m
During Operation Jack, a 9RAR chaplain uses a soldier's bedroll as an improvised altar, as he conducts a Sunday religious service for three members of B Company who are sitting on the trunk of a falle
