The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Baria, South Vietnam. February 1970. Four curious Vietnamese children are fascinated with Major (Maj) Marcus Hitch's Army issue watch. Maj Hitch from Belmont, NSW, is the Australian education adviser to Phuoc Tuy Province. His unit is the 1st Australian Civil Affairs unit, based at Nui Dat, whose task is the co-ordination and implementation of Australian civil affairs' projects in the province. He was making one of his many visits to the province capital.
Baria, South Vietnam. 1970-01. Portrait of draftsman for the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, Corporal Keith West of Broadmeadows, Vic, working over his drawing board in the Province Reconstruction
Baria, South Vietnam. 1970-01. Education assistant, 3795601 Private (Pte) Phillip Gordon Richards of Murtoa, Vic and 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, teaches two Vietnamese girls from the Province R
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1970-01. 2791191 Private Colin Lucas of Belmore, NSW, sitting in his vehicle, is the driver of the education officer of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit based in Phuoc Tuy
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1970-01. Captain Bryan Franklin of St John's Wood, Qld, playing a game of badminton at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base. Capt Franklin, a member of the 1st Australian
Baria, South Vietnam. June 1971. The Minister for the Army, Mr Andrew Peacock, gets a close-up view of Vietnamese cooking methods during his inspection of housing provided by Army Civil Affairs for Re
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. May 1970. A sick Vietnamese peasant from the far north of the province is helped from an armoured personnel carrier (APC) to a waiting RAAF helicopter by his wife, a
