The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
In the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), Mortar Command Post (CP), Corporal F. R. (Smudger) Smith of Fairfield, Vic, and Sergeant Ted Sutton of Coorow, WA, look over the night's fire charts. A signalman with the mortars, Corporal Blanton of New Farm, Qld, is on the job talking with the Observation Posts at forward positions by radio telephone.
Mortar men of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), unload cases of mortar bombs from a unit three ton truck in preparation for the night's activities. Identified are 2/10696 Privat
During the night the cook house of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), did not stand up to the rain and here the cooks prepare a meal of hard boiled eggs, bacon and potato in the
Majon'ni, Korea. 1953-04-16. Members of the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) 2nd and 3rd Battalions, setting up mortars in sandbagged positions with the Royal Fusiliers. Left to right: 3/11077 Private
The entanglements between Lormisset Farm and Mushroom Quarry in the Masnieres-Beaurevoir system, behind the main Hindenburg Line. This system was well wired, but with trenches only a few inches deep.
Korea. c. 1951. Mortars have proved their value in the Korean fighting and little teams of skilled diggers keep the mortar bombs dropping effectively. Two members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Austr
'Tom Smith' (right), a Korean radio mechanic employed by the Commonwealth forces in Korea, is assisting telegraphic mechanic 41041 Signalman John Desmond Dayman, of Kilburn, SA, to wire up a test pane
