The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Milo meets his new master, Mr J. R. Cochrane, the assistant manager of the Chartered Bank in Saigon. Milo was previously a tracker dog with 4RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), and was brought to Saigon to be given to Mr Cochrane by his handler, Private David Cree of Wollongong, NSW (left). Suitable homes have been found for all tracker dogs used in Vietnam, as quarantine regulations prevent their return to Australia.
Sniffing out his new surroundings, Milo is escorted by his new master, Mr J. R. Cochrane, the assistant manager of the Chartered Bank in Saigon (left), a Vietnamese woman neighbour, and Private David
Arriving by helicopter to meet their new owners are tracker dogs Marcian and Milo, escorted by their Platoon Commander, Lieutenant Mick Murphy of Townsville, Qld (centre), and handlers Private (Pte) D
Mr R. Brash, the Counsellor and Consul General with the British Embassy in Saigon, and his Vietnamese maid and her three children, are introduced to Marcian, by his former handler, Private David Nelso
Marcian, formerly a tracker dog with the 4RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantr
Portrait of 219514 Private (Pte) David John 'Bluey' Cree, D Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment - New Zealand (ANZAC) (4RAR), with Milo the black Labrador tracker dog on patrol in Ph
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 1968-12. Milo, one of eight tracker dogs working with infantry battalions in the jungles of Phuoc Tuy Province, enjoys a game with his handler, Private Bob Hunter of
