The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of a smiling 11689 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Clive Kevin 'Joe' Vea-Vea outside a sandbag covered dugout. L/Cpl Vea-Vea, a member of the 3rd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), is helping man the frontline trenches. L/Cpl Vea-Vea, who became a member of the Regimental Police (RP), is of Aboriginal and South Seas Islander descent. Below his RAR shoulder patch is the blue rectangle of the US Distinguished Unit Citation (later Presidential Unit Citation) awarded to 3RAR after the battle of Kapyong.
Kapyong veteran receives the US Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation Device from General James Van Fleet. General Van Fleet, Commanding the 8th US Army in Korea, visited the 3rd Battalion, The Roy
General James Van Fleet, Commanding the 8th US Army (left), shaking hands with an unidentified chosen member of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), after he has bestowed the US Pr
Major General H Murray, General Commanding Officer 1 Commonwealth Division (right), chats to Lieutenant Colonel(LT Col) Buckler, Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
Korea. 4 December 1951. General James Van Fleet, Commanding the 8th US Army (left), decorating Private Davies of Wanganui, NZ, who was a chosen member of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regime
Korea. 4 December 1951. General James Van Fleet, the 8th US Army Commander, bestows the US Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation device on Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hassett, the Commander of the 3rd
Troops from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), march at a parade at a 3RAR camp in Korea. An army band is playing on the parade ground. The parade is probably on the occasion
