The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
3/5662 Gunner Noel Cook (left), aged 21, of Camberwell, Vic, B Troop, 100th 'A' Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), receiving instruction from Sergeant V Melvin (right), of Liverpool, England, 48th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (RA), as he uses the optical sight to lay a 4.2 inch heavy mortar, being field tested under jungle warfare conditions. The Australian gunners have been training on the mortar for two weeks and have fired between 80 or 90 of the 20 pound bombs into known Communist areas.
Unidentified gunners from B Troop, 100th 'A' Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), duck as the blast from a 4.2 inch mortar thumps in their ears during test firing in Perak, Northern Malaya
Two British non commissioned officers (NCO) (wearing berets), 48th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (RA), instructing a group of unidentified Australian gunners from B Troop, 100th 'A' Field Battery, R
Unidentified gunners from B Troop, 100th 'A' Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), duck as the blast from a 4.2 inch mortar thumps in their ears during test firing in Perak, Northern Malaya
Brigadier (Brig) H J Mogg (left), Commander, 28th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade talks with unidentified gunners of A Troop, 100th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) as they stand
Informal portrait of 4/1894 Gunner (Gnr) (later Lance Bombardier) Leon R Anderson, of Hilton, SA, B Troop, 100th ‘A’ Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) cleaning and polishing the open bre
Unidentified gunners of A Troop, 105th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), are silhouetted by the muzzle flash as their 25 pounder field gun sends another shell away in their nightly shoo
