The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. March 1969. On guard at a well protected bunker deep in dense bush in the Raspberry Creek sector of the Shoalwater Bay training area, is Corporal Peter Kent of Cudgen, NSW. Corporal Kent is a member of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), which is now on Exercise Bright Armour. The exercise is preparing the Battalion for service in South Vietnam later this year.
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. March 1969. Patrol of A Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), moves out of a defensive position on a probe into scrub in the Raspberry Creek sector of Shoa
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. March 1969. Ready to join a helicopter for an airborne assault is Private Peter Ashton of Clovelly Park, SA, a member of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR). The B
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. September 1968. Corporal Bill Fogarty of Hayfield, near Sale, Vic, keeps watch from a `Queensland Cong' bunker hidden in the bush at Shoalwater Bay where he and other member of 7t
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. February 1968. Members of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), dressed in authentic vietnamese dress specially made for exercise purposes. The 6th Battalion provid
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. September 1968. Not a scene from Vietnam, but a village being kept under close guard during cordon and search operations by the 9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (9RAR)
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. February 1968. Corporal Phillip Buttigieg of Cilles Plains, SA, dressed as a Vietnamese peasant, performs the Buddhist custom of shaking fortune sticks. Second Lieutenant John Nee
