The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An anxious Vietnamese mother watches Sergeant (Sgt) Don Rushan of Canungra, Qld, treat her young child for tonsillitis. Sgt Rushan, a medic with the Australian Medical Civil Aid Project (MEDCAP) team in Phuoc Tuy Province, was working at a new refugee village established by Australian Task Force troops near their base at Nui Dat, to resettle civilians.
This photograph was selected as the 1967 Army Public Relations Photograph of the Year. The Ilford Trophy was presented by the Minister of the Army Mr Philip Lynch to Michael 'Mad Mike' Coleridge; who by the time the award was presented had left the Army and was working as a photographer for the Melbourne Truth.
SOUTH VIETNAM, 1967. SERGEANT MIKE COLERIDGE OF THE 7TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (7RAR), AT WORK AS AN ARMY PR PHOTOGRAPHER IN SOUTH VIETNAM. A PAINTING BASED ON THIS PHOTOGRAPH BY BRU
Vietnam. 1967. In a thick jungle patch near the Australian Task Force base, Private Kevin Borger of Sydney, NSW, a soldier of B Company, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), had a fixed stare and was
A medical Civic Aid Program (Medcap) team from the RAAF became the first team to visit Long Son, an island six miles north of Vung Tau, which had been the scene of recent Viet Cong (VC) activity. The
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1969-09. Army Public Relations photographer, Sergeant (Sgt) David Combe of Forbes, NSW, is presented with the Ilford 1969 Photographic Award for the Army's 'Picture of the Year
Vietnam. 1967-09. Australian Army adviser, Warrant Officer (WO) Class 2 Terry Smith of Mount Druitt, NSW, is farewelled by Vietnamese friends at the Regional forces sub-sector post near the village of
A medical Civic Aid Program (Medcap) team from the RAAF became the first team to visit Long Son, an island six miles north of Vung Tau, which had been the scene of recent Viet Cong (VC) activity. The
