The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea. 1 January 1953. Informal portrait of Private Frank Smith of Taree, NSW, coming out of a deep snow covered dugout to commence a tour of sentry duty in the front line. He is a member of B Company, the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). Note the heavy fall of snow on the sandbagged trench around him.
Korea. 1 January 1953. Informal portrait of Private Henry Wills of Harrow, Vic, as he leaves his dugout to take over a tour of sentry duty in a front line position at B Company, the 1st Battalion, The
Majon'ni, Korea. c. 1953. A tent and sentry box (on the right) at the snow covered "8 Check Point" on the Kansas Line. (Donor W. Barty)
Korea. 1 January 1953. Two Australian soldiers take a turn of duty watching the Chinese position in the front line. The soldier with the .30 machine gun is 3/3238 Private Ronald James (Ronnie) Tippet,
Queenslanders 11798 Corporal (Cpl) Terrence Allan McCoy (in chair), 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) and 22106 Cpl Ernest Joseph Moore, 1RAR, (right) both of Brisbane, are spending
In an aid station dugout, high in snow covered hills in Korea an unidentified medical officer, possibly British, tends to the knee wound of a soldier. Medical supplies are stored in the sandbagged dug
Korea. January 1953. The Company cookhouse in the snow after the line had stabilised. Note the sandbagged walls of the cookhouse.
