The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1970. Vietnamese honey bear cub, Raechel (wearing a digger's hat), apes it up with Corporal Bob Charles of Newmarket, Qld, at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base. The bear cub is the new mascot and pet of the soldiers of Headquarter Company. She was adopted by the men after her mother was shot by infantry when she charged through the soldiers' night location, setting off trip flares.
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1970. Vietnamese honey bear cub, Raechel, clowns around with Corporal Ian Rogers of Daylesford, Vic, a member of Headquarter Company. at the 1st Australian Task Force (1A
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. November 1970. Sergeant John Fairley clicked the shutter to capture this photograph of Marie, wearing a bush hat, who lives with her mother at Vung Tau. Marie was at Nui Dat to
Soldiers at the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat in South Vietnam, are inveterate collectors of pets. Dogs, monkeys, a turkey, snakes and a pig, all are well looked after by the troops in the
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. February 1970. Portrait of Major Peter Bool, Officer Commanding Headquarter Company of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), and of Southport, Qld, with seventeen years service
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. November 1970. It was party day at the 1st Australian Task Force Base (1ATF), as the headquarters entertains about eighty children from the Baria Orphanage. The Commander, 1st
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. June 1970. Sergeant Frank Johnson of Mornington, Vic, of the Defence and Employment Platoon of Headquarters, 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat, holds
