The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vung Tau, Vietnam. 1966-09. Top students in the Combined Language Course were Private Michael Dempsey of Liverpool, NSW (right), and Truong Ngoc Hoan, being congratulated by the local province chief, Lieutenant Colonel Le Van Dat (left), and the Commander, 1st Australian Task Force, Brigadier O. D. Jackson. Twenty nine Australian soldiers and twenty nine Vietnamese troops graduated as interpreters after a three month coarse, during which they were paired off, one Australian and one Vietnamese.
Twenty nine Australian soldiers have become the first graduates of an experimental school set up to train fluent interpreters. At the same school South Vietnamese soldiers studied the English languag
Twenty nine Australian soldiers in Vietnam have become the first graduates of an experimental school set up to train fluent interpreters. At the same school, Vietnamese soldiers studied English. Comma
Vietnam. 1966-10. 15516 Sergeant Leslie John Turner of Stafford Heights, Brisbane, Qld, serving with the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), helps Lok, a Vietnamese interpreter now se
Weir speaks of training Australian and South Vietnamese soldiers as interpreters to assist infantry platoon commanders on operations. One of his students, Private Michael John Dempsey, a member of 5th
370 Air Commodore (AC) Jack Dowling, of Adelaide, SA, Commander of RAAF Forces Vietnam, was invited to present diplomas to 20 Australians graduating from a Vietnamese language course. The course was
Vietnam. 1966-12. A proud moment for Lance Corporal Ron Eglinton of Whitton, Qld, and 11 Platoon, D Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), as he receives the ribbon to his Milit
