Description
Hue, South Vietnam. 1969-10. Major (Maj) Gordon Brown of Puckapunyal, Vic, a member of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) watches as Vietnamese women say prayers over the remains of clothing found in a mass grave. Maj Brown is Senior District Adviser at Nam Hoa and was responsible for co-ordinating the search for the mass grave following information from a rallier to the South Vietnamese Government. The remains of about 250 victims of the Viet Cong (VC) in the 1968 Tet Offensive were found in the grave.
Details
Accession Number
BEL/69/0718/VN
Photographer
Sergeant Christopher John Bellis
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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