The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Baria, South Vietnam. November 1971. A happy ending to a project started five months ago by members of 547 Signals Troop, based at Vung Tau, and their wives living in Toowoomba, Qld, is depicted by these smiling Vietnamese orphans. The 7 Signals Regiment Wives Association has been holding social functions to raise money for playground equipment for the Dai Dao Tam orphanage in Baria, the provincial capital of Phuoc Tuy Province. The soldiers also raised money towards the venture. The equipment arrived aboard the HMAS Jeparit and seen helping the children test it out are, left to right: Signalman (Sig) Darryl Singleton; Sig Jim Kanowski; Sergeant Bob Watson and Warrant Officer Class 2 Peter Weir-Smith.
Twenty seven soldiers from the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), at Nui Dat took twenty seven orphans, by road convoy, for a day at the Saigon Zoo. During the outing, for children from the Cao Dai orp
