The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Probably Hill Sardine, Korea, c. 1951-04-16. Soldiers possibly from the Machine Gun Platoon, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), relax on a track that leads up a wooded hill. Most of the soldiers are leaning back on their packs and have their weapons with them, the weapons comprising Owen submachine guns and .303 rifles. Standing among the soldiers are the two tripods for Vickers machine guns. A soldier at centre (left) is reading a book. (Donor I. Robertson)
Hill Sardine, Korea, 1951-04-16. Members of C Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), move forward from Hill Sardine to Hill Salmon to establish a machine gun post. In the foregr
Hill Sardine, Korea, c. 1950-04-16. Members of the Machine Gun Section, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), on Sardine. The soldier at centre is holding a small radio set with a micro
Korea, c. 1950-11. 2/949 Corporal G.F. ('Fibber') McGee of the Machine Gun Section, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sits in a shallow dugout on the side of a hill and writes a let
Korea, c. 1951-03. Outdoors group portrait of the members of a platoon from C Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). Almost all of the soldiers are wearing pile caps and windpro
Korea, c. 1951-02. Outdoors group portrait in the snow of part of Battalion Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). The soldiers are wearing pile caps or beanies to keep the
Hiro, Honshu, Japan, c. 1950-09. Members of the recently-formed Medium Machine Gun Platoon of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), strip, clean and reassemble their .303 Vickers me
