The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Three unidentified soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), take a break from the strenuous work of building a bunker into a Korean hillside. The bunker is being constructed of poles and sandbags, with the main timber support beam resting on a 44 gallon drum. Vegetation will then be used to camouflage the top. All three soldiers have removed their shirts to work. The soldier in the centre is wearing a white singlet, and his identity discs can be seen hanging from his neck. Note the pick and shovel lying on the floor of the bunker.
Two unidentified soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), use their combined strength to lift a heavy pole into place on the top of a bunker being built into a Korean hil
Two unidentified soldiers struggle up a steep slope with a 100lb coil of barbed wire. A third soldier reels off the wire to their rear. All are members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regi
Mail has just arrived at the 3RAR camp on top of a hill in Korea. An unidentified soldier from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) (left), delivers a letter to a fellow soldier, w
At a camp in Korea, five unidentified soldiers, probably members of the 1st Battalion,The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), take a rest during their work digging hillside trenches or dugouts. One sold
Letters and parcels come tumbling out of a hessian mailbag being tipped upside down by an unidentified soldier of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR)(left). Three other soldiers ea
South of the Imjin River, a team from A Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), sets up wire defences around its perimeter. Here an unidentified soldier uses a knife to twist ba
