The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Malaya. c. 1960. Members of 6 Platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), with their native Iban tracker (wearing the slouch hat). Left to right: Private (Pte) "Possum" Hudson, Buntu (an Iban tracker), Pte Arthur J. Roberts and Pte B. P. Moore. Pte Roberts changed his name to Robertson, and as Warrant Officer 2 A.J. Robertson was killed in action on 1967-12-05 serving in the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV). (Donor B. Betts)
Malaya. c. 1960. Members of B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), preparing to be transported by US Marine helicopters to HMS Bulwark. The Battalion had been on a joint exerc
Malaya. c. 1960. 28324 Corporal Brian E. Betts, bare-chested, after returning from a patrol in Northern Malaya near the border with Thailand. He was a member of B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Aus
3/2555 Private (Pte) Edward John (Ted) Ortlipp (wearing slouch hat), aged 29, of Bright, Vic, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), shakes hands with an unidentified Iban tracker from t
Malaya. c. 1960. Malayan police guides in the bow of a boat carrying members of B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), to a Grik native village on the Sunghi Perar river. 1RAR
Major (Maj) B G Rankine (left), of Margate, Qld, Citizen Military Forces (CMF) is getting a lesson in jungle tracking from an unidentified Iban tracker (centre) of the Sarawak Rangers who is attached
Malaya. c. 1960. Members of B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), unloading stores at a Grik native village on the Sunghi Perar river. 1RAR conducted long range patrols in No
