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Photograph COL/66/0972/VN Vietnam, 1962-1975Vietnam. 1966. Private Ken Conole of Brunswick, Vic, and 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), checks a box of soft drinks that Vietnamese villagers have brought to trade.

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Lance Corporal Neville Smerdon of Wagga Wagga, NSW, and 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), checks a box of soft drinks with small bottles of 33 beer and large bottles of Tigers beer. Whenever Australian troops operate near a village, it is not long before the local Vietnamese villagers come out to trade.
Vietnam. 1966. Private Ken Conole of Brunswick, Vic, and 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), checks a box of soft drinks that Vietnamese villagers have brought to trade.

Vietnam. 1966. Private Ron Presbury of Kyogle, NSW, and 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), samples the rice lunch of a Vietnamese villager who had earlier sold soft drinks to the tro

Vietnam. 1967. Whenever Australian troops enter a Vietnamese village, one of their first moves is to administer medical aid to the people, many of whom have never seen a doctor. Corporal Ron Nichols o

Ap Long Cat, Vietnam. 1966. Roman Catholic Padre to the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), Father John Williams, is surrounded by Vietnamese nuns and villagers as he hands back rosar

Soldiers (stretcher bearers and medics) of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) Band, play to entertain villagers of Hoa Long during a village search operation.

Hoa Long, Vietnam. 1966. Private Jeff Ross of Kelvin Grove, Qld, a medical orderly with the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), who is surrounded by Vietnamese villagers, listens to a
