The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), take advantage of the lunch hour to stretch out and rest after a hard morning's work on the D Company diggings. They are seen here waiting for their hot meal to be brought up from the Battalion. Pictured: Private (Pte) O. Jong Bok of Chongju; Pte Ron Townsend of Erica, Vic; Sergeant Pak Hoon Soup of Pusan; Pte S. J. (Snowy) Hinckley of Victoria Park, WA; Pte Laurie Dreyer of Young, NSW; Pte Bob Chisholm of Coogee, NSW, and Pte Kim Hong Soup of Andung. The South Korean soldiers are members of the Korean Augmentation Troops, Commonwealth (KATCOM). United Nations (UN) forces were busy constructing a strong defensive line along the entire length of Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), south of the 38th parallel.
Corporal Peter Sims, D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), of Glenhuntly, Vic (left), works side by side with Sergeant Pak Hoon Soup, of the Korean Augmentation Troops, Commo
Informal portrait of three members of D Company, the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), at a digging position on The Hook as they take a breather on some of the dirt they have just m
All army installations in Korea have to be well protected against thieves, and here an Australian soldier and a KATCOM work together erecting a concertina fence around the Gallipoli Camp of the 1st Ba
Four machine gunners of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), enjoy their midday meal. Pictured, left to right: Corporal Dave Coyne of Bundaberg, Qld; Private (Pte) R. G. (Bluey) Ri
Sandbagging their new hutchi which they are making sure will be water proofed for the coming wet season are Private Kevin Jones of Belmore, NSW, who passes the sandbag from the bottom of the dugout to
The companies of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) in Korea are taking turns at doing duty in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ). The men who will patrol the DMZ are very thoroughly br
