The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. April 1970. Military Medal winner Corporal (Cpl) Barry Coe of Penrith, NSW, is given his ribbon by the quartermaster of C Company, the 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), Staff Sergeant George McGovern of Keperra, Qld, after learning of the award. Cpl Coe, a support section commander with the company, was on operations in the Long Hai hills, south east of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base in February 1970, when infantry and armoured units came under heavy attack by Viet Cong armed with rocket propelled grenades. He risked his life in helping to save five comrades trapped in an armoured personnel carrier hit by enemy fire.
Sapper Colin Heley of Liverpool, NSW, an engineer from the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), holding a dagger and a flashlight, clambers out of a cave in the Long Hai mountains aft
Flashlight in hand, Sapper (Spr) Trevor Hughes of Beenleigh, Qld, emerges from the gloom of a cave in the Long Hai mountains during Operation Hammersley. The cave held a cache of rocket propelled gren
Australian troops prepare to sweep through thick scrub in the Long Hai mountains in South Vietnam during Operation Hammersley. The men, of 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), had clas
PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM. C. 9 MARCH 1970. THE RESULT OF A SWEEP THROUGH THE RUGGED LONG HAI MOUNTAINS DURING OPERATION HAMERSLEY. THE ENEMY WEAPONS WERE FOUND BY 8TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUS
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 18 February 1970. Private (Pte) Darrell Hook of Redcliffe, Qld, passes out a Mosin-Nagant Carbine rifle from enemy weapons cache in a cave in the Long Hai mountains
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Peter Derrick of Dandenong, Vic, Corporal Lindsay Craig of Brookton, WA, L Cpl Bob Venables of Ingham, Qld, and Second Lieuteannt B
