The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vinh Thanh, South Vietnam. 1968-12-30. Private Peter Hannah of Albion, Qld, helps young Vietnamese children open parcels of clothing at the hamlet of Vinh Thanh, about six miles north of the 1st Australian Task Force Base (1ATF) at Nui Dat. The children received the parcel of clothing, which had been sent to the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit at Nui Dat, for distribution to Vietnamese poor as part of the unit's Operation New Life.
South Vietnam. 1968-09. Sapper Kevin Battaglia of Cloverdale, WA, hands a gift from Australia to a young Vietnamese patient in the Baria Hospital, five miles from the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF)
South Vietnam. 1968-09. Private Alex Bondar of Sylvania, NSW, hands a gift from Australia to a young Vietnamese patient in the Baria hospital, five miles from the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base
South Vietnam. 1968-09. Captain Mick Price of Cardwell, Qld, hands a gift from Australia to a young Vietnamese patient lying in bed in the Baria Hospital, five miles from the 1st Australian Task Force
Ap Suoi Nghe, South Vietnam. 1968-11. Private Phillip Gifford of Queanbeyan, NSW (right), hands out school supplies, to two Vietnamese, in the village school house at Ap Suoi Nghe, a small resettlemen
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
Montagnard farmers in South Vietnam's Phuoc Tuy Province will reap a better rice crop this year, thanks to the help of the Australian Army's 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, based at Nui Dat. This m
