The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A corporal with the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sits in a shallow dugout scanning the valley below. He has his Vickers water cooled machine gun loaded with .303 cartridges ready to fire as he overlooks two US tanks below him. Note the rubber tube going from the water can to the machine gun.
Four unidentified Vickers machine gunners of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sit on a hill behind their gun. Boxes of ammunition are on the ground (right), ready to be loaded.
An unidentified machine gunner from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), prepares to fire his Vickers Machine gun from a hillside, during their advance in North Korea. He has a .3
Korea, c. 1950-10. A member of the Machine Gun Platoon, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sits and reads a book in his dugout which overlooks a road running past terraced paddy fiel
South Korea. 1 January 1951. New Year's Day 1951, the 8th Republic of Korea (ROK) Division collapsed and the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), went up to Tokchon to cover their with
Three unidentified members of a machine gun platoon of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), are setting up their .303 Vickers medium machine gun on a grassy hill. The soldier at t
Korea, c. 1950-11. 2/949 Corporal G.F. ('Fibber') McGee of the Machine Gun Section, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sits in a shallow dugout on the side of a hill and writes a let
