The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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. For the past fortnight, the Australians have been receiving training and instruction from members of the British 48th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (RA) in the use of the heavy mortar. The Australians have fired between 80 or 90 of the 20 pound bombs into areas known to hide Communist terrorists. These mortars are in standard use with the British army units but are new to the Australian artillerymen in Malaya who have been using the QF 25 pounder field guns.
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
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, Eng
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
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
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 1/4109 Private (Pte) M R 'Kiwi' Gibbons, aged 28, of Nabiac, NSW, a tracker with 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). Pte Gibbons took part in a successful ambush
