The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Ingleburn, NSW. December 1967. Labrador dog, Brutus, with his handler/trainer, Private Robert Murray, 19, of Sefton, NSW. Brutus, formerly of Canberra, began training recently at the Battle Training Wing of the Infantry Centre, Ingleburn, where he is being trained as a tracker dog destined for Vietnam. His training will take nine to ten months.
Shoalwater Bay, Qld. July 1967. Black Labrador tracker dog Milo, follows the trail of an `enemy' terrorist during search and clear operations in the Shoalwater Bay training area north of Rockhampton,
Vietnam. 1967-11. Justin, a black labrador, one of two tracker dogs with 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), with his handler, Private Tom Blackhurst of Swansea, NSW.
Vietnam. 1967-11. Justin, a black labrador, one of two tracker dogs with 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), in a pit with his handler, Private Tom Blackhurst of Swansea, NSW (right),
Vietnam. 1967. Private Peter Boyd of Sefton, NSW, looks every inch a fighting soldier as he patrols the jungle near Task Force Base with his mates of Delta (D) Company. After nine months of combat you
Aluminium disc engraved with 'D 6 N 0 3 CAESAR', indicating that Caesar was from New South Wales and was the third dog taken into the Army in 1966. Engraved on the other side of the disc is 'AUST MIL
News of the award of the George Medal to A21702 Sergeant (Sgt) Gordon Dudley Buttriss, of Sefton, NSW, was announced to his comrades in No 9 Squadron, at a parade in the squadron's hangar at Vung Tau
