The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An Ngai, South Vietnam. 1969-10. Warrant Officer 2 Don Burt of Templestowe, Vic, and village schoolteacher, Mrs Tam, watch over the distribution of toys and Vietnamese moon cakes to the pupils of the school. It is traditional to present gifts to one another during the Vietnamese Mid Autumn Festival, Tet Trung-Thu, and the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), which is based at Nui Dat, took the opportunity to bake and distribute the traditional moon cakes plus other gifts. The distribution of the cakes and gifts to the hamlet was organised by the Light Aid Detachment at Headquarters 1ATF.
An Ngai, South Vietnam. 1969-10. Australians from the Nui Dat based 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) used the Vietnamese Mid Autumn Festival, Tet Trung-Thu, as the occasion to present playground equip
An Ngai, South Vietnam. 1969-10. This Vietnamese boy gives an almost completed slippery dip a test run. Packing in the sand around the play equipment are Craftsman (Cfn) Wally Tickle of Dungog, NSW, a
Burt speaks of the distribution of playground equipment, toys and mooncakes to children in various schools and orphanages in the Phuoc Tuy Province of South Vietnam at the time of the mid-autumn moon
Captain Leslie Bourne of Cumberland, SA, holds a young Vietnamese orphan during a Christmas party. Despite the distribution of toys, drinks and sweets, many of the 120 Vietnamese orphans at the Redemp
Signalman Tony King of Inglefarm, SA, a Vietnamese interpreter, Le Thi Nhung (left), and a local worker, Truong Thi Hong (right), hand out toys to disbelieving children at a Christmas party for 120 or
Signalman Tony King of Inglefarm, SA, and a local worker, Truong Thi Hong, distribute Christmas gifts to orphans. Unlike Christmas parties in Australia, there was no Santa Claus to distribute the gift
