The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), on the use of the 4.2 inch heavy mortar. The British NCOs were lent to the Australian battery to help train the Aussie gunners in operating the new mortar. In two weeks the Australians learnt to lay, fire, manoeuvre and deploy the large mortar under jungle conditions. The training culminated with the firing of 80 or 90 live rounds into a known Communist terrorist area in North Perak. When disassembled for travel, the mortar base plate doubles as a trailer platform and the weapon can be towed by a light vehicle such as a Land Rover.
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
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
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
2/7376 Gunner Ray Seaborn, 20, of Katoomba, NSW, a driver with A Troop (A Tp), 105th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), checks under the bonnet of his GMC, CCKW-353 two and a half ton tr
