The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
VIETNAM. 1966-10. ALL KINDS OF SHOTS CAN HELP WIN A WAR - AND INOCULATIONS ARE NO EXCEPTION. THE ARMY KEEPS ITS FIGHTING MEN FIT WITH REGULAR NEEDLE COURSES. ADMINISTERING THE INJECTION IS STAFF SERGEANT COLIN BLACKWELL OF GROVELLY, BRISBANE, QLD (LEFT), AND WAITING IN LINE ARE PRIVATE (PTE) TREVOR BRADSHAW OF CORRIGIN, WA, AND PTE JOSEPH NIKOLAJEW OF MAFFRA, GIPPSLAND, VIC. RECEIVING THE NEEDLE IS CORPORAL GEOFF SCHIFCOFSKE, OF BRISBANE, QLD. ALL FOUR MEN ARE OF "B" COMPANY, 6TH BATTALION, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (6RAR).
Private Jim Barrett, 20, of Inala, Brisbane, Qld (left), and Pte Tim Whelan of North Balwyn, Melbourne, Vic, watch Corporal Jim Gurney of Stafford, Brisbane, Qld, play a stringed musical instrument du
Binh Gia, Vietnam. 1966-10. Members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) brass band, which regularly gives concerts in Phuoc Tuy Province villages as entertainment for the locals
Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. 1966-10. Firing a captured communist Chicom 60mm mortar during an evaluation test are Private Geoff Warrell of Turramurra, Sydney, NSW (left), and Sergeant Jack Thompson o
Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. 1966-10. Firing a captured communist Chicom 60mm mortar during an evaluation test are Private Geoff Warrell of Turramurra, Sydney, NSW (left), and Sergeant Jack Thompson o
Group portrait of soldiers from D Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), display the dolls and cigarette-cases presented to them by the South Vietnamese government for their par
Alert patrol moves into a Viet Cong village during the first operation carried out by troops of the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR). The patrol, part of Operation Enoggera, is led
