The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 identification cards during a distribution of clothing and kitchen utensils provided for the Vietnamese by the Returned Services League (RSL) Operation "New Life" programme.
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" program
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
Ap Dong, South Vietnam. 1968-12. Trooper Colin Cook of Bentley, WA, outfits a young Vietnamese boy with a new shirt at a distribution of clothing collected in Australia for Operation New Life for the
Long Xuyen, South Vietnam. 1969-10. The Australian and Vietnamese flags are raised together during the opening of a new market place at the fishing village. Saluting the flags, left to right, are: the
Operation New Life - sponsored by the Returned Servicemens' League of Australia - is helping Vietnamese throughout Phuoc Tuy province to a better and fuller life. This week members of the 1st Australi
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. March 1970. Civil Affairs Officer Lieutenant Barry Smith of Albury, NSW, supervises the distribution of soap to villagers as part of the Operation New Life scheme. T
