The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Gio Linh, South Vietnam. 1969-04-25. Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1) Jim Geedrick, an Indigenous soldier from Rockhampton, Qld, raises the Australian flag over a South Vietnamese government outpost near the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) and North Vietnam. An adviser with the 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment of the South Vietnamese Army, WO1 Geedrick missed the Anzac Day ceremony at Da Nang held by the Australian Army Train Team, Vietnam (AATTV), and decided to do some flag raising on his own. Such occasions were rare, said WO1 Geedrick, as "every time I put the flag up they shoot holes through it".
South Vietnam. 1969-04. Warrant Officer 2 (WO2) Thomas Dolan of Fairfield, NSW, urges US Marine Corps musician, Staff Sergeant (S/Sgt) David Cairo, to blow his trumpet. WO2 Dolan is an Australian Army
Hue, South Vietnam. 1969-06. Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1) Bill Brown of Benalla, Vic, examines a bronze statue of the Vietnamese emperor Kha Dhiem at his tomb in the ancient imperial capital in Thua
South Vietnam. 1969-10. Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Jim West of Reservoir, Vic, discusses his position with a Vietnamese soldier of the unit with which he is working as an adviser, just south of the
South Vietnam. 1969-10. With maps and radio, Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Ray (Scarlet) O'Hara (right), an American Army adviser (left) and a Vietnamese soldier check the route of a proposed patrol f
Long Tho, South Vietnam. 1968-01. Australian Army Adviser Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Des Ford of Miriam Vale, Qld (pointing), instructs Vietnamese recruits at a South Vietnamese Regional and Popula
As any Vietnamese veteran will tell you, a hobby helps to make your tour pass more quickly. It so happens that gardening is Warrant Officer 1 (WO1) Bert Addington's hobby, and that's the birth of a ve
