The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
South Vietnam. 1969-05. Trooper Colin Cook of Bentley, WA, loads gifts from the Returned Services League (RSL) into a Vietnamese Navy vessel. The gifts, provided under the Operation "New Life" programme, were distributed on Long Son Island, which is located about eleven miles south west of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) at Nui Dat. Note the Vietnamese men in the background on the wharf and loading stores into another landing ship.
Long Son Island, South Vietnam. 1969-05. Private John Tinkler of Frenchs Forest, NSW (left), and Trooper Colin Cook of Bentley, WA, both members of 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, check identificat
Long Son Island, South Vietnam. 1969-05. Lance Corporal Phillip Gifford of Queanbeyan, NSW, and of 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, buttons a shirt for a young Vietnamese boy. The clothes, gifts for
Horseshoe Hill, South Vietnam. 1969-09. South Vietnamese soldiers are given instructions on how to load an M79 grenade launcher by Private (Pte) Ron Jones of Darlington, WA. Pte Jones of B Company, 6R
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1969-05. Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Colin Khan of Edgecliff, NSW, Commanding Officer of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), which is part of the 1st Au
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1969-07. Private Leigh Cassidy of Bentleigh, Vic, a member of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Maintenance Area, shows the visiting federal parliamentarian, Liberal member
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1969-08. Sapper D. Anning of South Perth, WA, a member of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, receives the Psychological Warfare (Psywar) Medal from the Vietnamese Minister
