The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal group portrait of eight members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), in the B Company lines at the Australian task force base. The photograph was taken in the morning, some hours before the platoon took part in Operation Bribie. Left to right: back row: 215985 Private (Pte) Christopher Bruce Weston, 15561 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Kerry Michael Rooney, 1730853 Pte Leslie Wilson Nuffer, 1730895 Pte Mervyn David Benfer, 1730892 Pte Barry Kevin Bartsch; front row: 1730854 Pte Desmond John Neuendorff, 5713860 Pte Bernard Eugene Hooper, 3787617 Pte Colin Anthony Brown. 3787718 Pte Robin Charles Harris was absent from this photograph. These men formed the left hand forward section during the assault. L Cpl Rooney was killed in action later that day, and was awarded Mention in Despatches (MID) for his actions in the operaton. Privates Weston, Bartsch and Hooper were wounded in action during the operation. Pte Bartsch was wounded whilst loading wounded into the forward armoured personnel carrier which was disabled by enemy fire and later wrecked to prevent salvaging by the Viet Cong. He was awarded an MID.
Informal group portrait of nine members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), in the B Company lines at the Australian task force base. The photograph was taken
Informal group portrait of four members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) and an interpreter (probably a conscript) of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (A
Informal portrait of 15561 Lance-Corporal (L Cpl) Kerry Michael Rooney, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. L Cpl Rooney of Red Hill, Qld, was killed in action on 17 February 1967.
Informal group portrait of eight members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), in the B Company lines at the Australian task force base. The photograph was take
Group portrait of soldiers of B Company, 7th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: 372 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Horatio Harold Roberts Baker, who later died of wounds on 10 May 1915 at Cap
16646 Private (Pte) Richard Beverley Odendahl, left and 214031 Corporal (Cpl) Robin William Jones, right, both from 5 Platoon, B Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) treating 5
