The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea. December 1953. Informal portrait of Private (Pte) Pete Davis, B Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), of Mt Gambier, SA, as he enjoys a cuppa. 3RAR are in the process of digging their new defence line. Korea. December 1953. Private Andy Arnold, B Company, 3rd Battalion, The positions were being constructed with much urgency as it was vital to have the line prepared before winter froze the ground and made digging impossible.
Original BCOF Public Relations Section Caption: "Pte Pete Davis of B Company the 3rd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment enjoys his "cuppa" but one of the things he misses in Korea is an occasional glass of rough cider. Before he joined the Australian Army Pte Davis worked in a garage for Lang and Co. in Mount Gambie [Mount Gambier ?], South Australia, but he is originally from Somerset-the cider Country [County ?] of England, where he lived with his Mother Mrs P. Davis at 8 Exeter Road, Weston-Super-Mare.
Korea. December 1953. Private Andy Arnold, B Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), lays stretched out and enjoying a hot drink during a well earned break from digging the new d
Korea. 23 December 1953. Two members of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), Private (Pte) V. (Blue) Lloyd of Dee Why, NSW (foreground), and Pte Ron Davis of Mount Barker, SA, decorati
Korea. May 1953. Private P. J. (Snowy) Howorth of Midland Junction, WA, and of the 9th Platoon, C Company, the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), enjoys a cigarette as he waits to be
Korea. 1953-11-21. Taking a rest after digging defences on line Kansas are members of Support Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). Left to right: 2/2425 Sergeant L. Jarret; KA
Korea. December 1953. Private (Pte) Clyde Mundy, B Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), of Port Lincoln, SA, takes a break in his recently completed sandbagged weapon pit on t
Korea. January 1953. Private Jim Hough of South Perth, WA, digging near his Company Command Post of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). Note the pile of sandbags behind him.
