The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. April 1971. Gathered outside the headquarters of the 2nd Special Air Service Squadron (SAS), are members of the specially appointed Kerr Committee which was examining conditions of service throughout Australia's armed forces, and members of an SAS patrol which had just returned from an operation in Phuoc Tuy Province. The Committee was gathering evidence and toured the war zone to gain first hand impressions of service life as they affected the man in the field. Standing with his arms folded is the Comittee Chairman, Mr Justice J. R. Kerr (who later became Governor General of Australia). At rear is Brigadier A. M. McDonald, far right is Colonel W. F. Burnard, an army consultant.
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1971. Members of the specially appointed Kerr Committee which was examining conditions of service throughout Australia's armed forces, speak with Brigadier A. M. McDonald
South Vietnam. April 1971. Sergeant (Sgt) Terry O'Farrell of Balga, WA (left), a member of the 2nd Special Air Service Squadron, speaks with armed forces advisers to the Kerr Committee of investigatio
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1971. Corporal (Cpl) Ken Young of Karrinyup, WA (right), discusses the day to day life of an Australian Army man serving in South Vietnam with Mr Justice J. R. Kerr (left
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1971. Members of the Kerr Committee, which was examining conditions of service in Australia's armed forces, were shown a simulated extraction (dust off) of wounded soldie
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1971. Chairman of the Committee examining conditions of service applied to members of Australia's armed forces, Mr Justice J. R. Kerr, took a close interest in medical pe
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 25 April 1971. Entertainers from Western Australia visited soldiers in Phuoc Tuy Province. They played to enthusiastic audiences in Saigon, Vung Tau and Nui Dat. On
