The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vietnam. 1966-08. Private (Pte) Ashley Eyles of Armidale, NSW (left), and Pte Peter Devine of Waverley, NSW, blocking their ears and taking cover in the sandbagged weapon pit to avoid the blast from the 81mm mortar barrel. Both soldiers are in the mortar platoon of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), firing down on Viet Cong positions day and night.
Vietnam. 1966-08. Private (Pte) Peter Devine of Waverley, NSW (left), and Pte Ashley Eyles of Armidale, NSW, blocking their ears and taking cover in the sandbagged weapon pit to avoid the blast from t
Vietnam. 1966-08. Private (Pte) Ashley Eyles of Armidale, NSW (left), and Pte Peter Devine of Waverley, NSW, taking cover in the sandbagged weapon pit to avoid the blast from the 81mm mortar barrel. B
Vietnam. 1966-08. Private (Pte) Ashley Eyles of Armidale, NSW, taking cover while Pte Peter Devine of Waverley, NSW, covers his ears to block out the noise of the blast from an 81mm mortar barrel. Bot
Vietnam. 1966-08. Dropping a shell down an 81mm mortar barrel is Private (Pte) Ashley Eyles of Armidale, NSW, while Pte Peter Devine of Waverley, NSW, covers his ears to block out the noise of the bla
Vietnam. 1966-09. Portrait of Private Ashley Eyles of Annandale, NSW, and of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), wearing his floppy bush hat.
Private Dale Misfield of Toowoomba, Qld, and a member of the Mortar Platoon Support Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), shelters from the blast while firing 81mm mortar on th
