The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. August 1970. An armoured personnel carrier (APC) sits astride Route Two as part of a cordon around the village of Hoa Long just south of Nui Dat. In the rice paddy in the background, C Company, 8th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), sort through captured weapons and equipment taken from the bodies of seventeen Viet Cong killed in an ambush early on the morning of 12 August 1970. The armed enemy re-supply party entered the village late the night before after moving from a hideout in the Nui Dinh Hills (in the background). The driver of the APC is Trooper Russell Brady of Wavell Heights, Qld, and the commander is Warrant Officer Class 2 A. G. Hudson of Wangaratta, Vic, whose unit killed another enemy and took five prisoners of war (POWs) from the same enemy group.
PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM. AUGUST 1970. AN AUSTRALIAN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER (APC) SITS ASTRIDE ROUTE TWO OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE OF HOA LONG NEAR THE SCENE OF THE AMBUSH OF 12 AUGUST 1970 IN
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. August 1970. Private Robin Gill of Pasadena, SA, a soldier of C Company, 8th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), searches through packs taken from the b
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. August 1970. Private Peter Lloyd of Nelsons Bay, NSW, a soldier of C Company, 8th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), searches through a pile of food an
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. August 1970. Ambush commander, Sergeant (Sgt) Charles Sherrin of Shepparton, Vic, describes the action in which his platoon killed seventeen Viet Cong, to the 1st Au
NUI DAT, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1970-08. THE COMMANDER OF THE AUSTRALIAN FORCE IN VIETNAM (COMAFV), MAJOR GENERAL (MAJ GEN) C.A.E. FRASER, CONGRATULATES SERGEANT CHARLES SHERRIN, 23, FROM SHEPPARTON, VICTORIA
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. August 1970. It was a high powered meeting for Sergeant (Sgt) Charles Sherrin of Shepparton, Vic, when the Commander of the Australian Force in Vietnam (COMAFV), Major General
