The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea. 1 December 1954. Operating the Mortar Control Post immediately behind the weapons and keeping them in touch with the Observation Post with their 31 sets are, Sergeant (Sgt) Sammy Booth of Mildura, Vic (left), and Lance Corporal (Mac) McCoy of Brisbane, Qld, during a field exercise carried out by the machine gun and mortar platoons of 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). Sgt Booth is the Mortar Platoon Sergeant and an experienced man with the weapons, having served for twelve months with 3RAR in 1951-52.
Korea. 1 December 1954. At a field firing exercise carried out by the machine gun and mortar platoons of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), in Korea, Sergeant D. C. (Bluey) Muir
Length of jungle green British Army sweat rag made of a thick woven cotton mesh. Associated with the service of 235080 Robert John Fletcher. Bob Fletcher was born in Cowra in 1932, and entered the R
Korea. 1 December 1954. Machine gunners and mortar men, the specialists of a Battalion, need a lot of practice to maintain their high degree of proficiency at arms. Recently members of the mortar and
Informal portrait of 12996 Sergeant (Sgt) Ronald Oscar Hempel, Draughtsman from Melbourne, Victoria, keeping in touch with the beachhead by a walkie-talkie set while pushing inland with an advanced re
Pair of hand embroidered jungle green cotton drill rank slides showing the two 'pips' of a Lieutenant and the letters 'RAR' (Royal Australian Regiment). The embroidery of the pips was originally in wh
Haramura, Japan. Section commanders at a forward observation post check their position on an ordnance map before deploying for attack. The unidentified men are members of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Aus
