The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea. December 1953. Private (Pte) Ray Wolfe, B Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), smokes a cigarette as he carries corrugated iron up the hill for reinforcing the bunkers for the new defence positions still under construction. Pte Wolfe comes from Cairns, Qld, and joined the Battalion in June last year after serving for six months in Japan. He is due to return home to Australia in July 1954.
Original British Commonwealth Forces, Korea (BCFK) Public Relations caption: Pte Ray Wolfe of B Coy 3 Bn The Royal Australian Regiment carries reinforcing material for use on the defence positions under construction. He joined the Bn in June this year, after serivng for six months in Japan. Ray comes from 135 Buchan Street, Cairns, Queensland where he lives with his wife Nita. The wintery weather in Korea is a lot different to that of sunny queensland, but he joined K Force because he felt that there was a job to be done here and is doing his share cheerfully. He will be returning home in July next year.
Korea. December 1953. Private (Pte) Bryan Apps of S Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), carrying his pick over his shoulder as he heads off to work on the task of building on
Reinforcing a bunker entrance in the Australian positions on the Korean truce line is 26024 Private (Pte) Charles Thomas Walton, of Young, NSW. Pte Walton has been serving with the 1st Battalion, The
Reinforcing a bunker entrance in the Australian positions on the Korean truce line is 34258 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Jack Fahey, of Morwell, Vic. L Cpl Fahey has been serving with the 1st Battalion, Th
Should hostilities ever break out again in Korea, it is likely to be a bunker war, and one of the most important weapons will be the infantry's Vickers medium machine gun. Here 27290 Private (Pte) Bri
The last few minutes of guard duty drag slowly for 27411 Private (Pte) Ronald Edgar (Ron) Beetson. The camera caught Pte Beetson glancing impatiently at his watch as his sentry duty on a bulk store dr
25856 Private (Pte) Noel John Frost , of Mittagong, NSW, sandbags the walls of a trench forming part of the defence line positions of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) in Korea.
