The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Children come out to greet three unidentified Australians from A Company (A Coy), 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) who are finishing their jungle patrol at a local kampong (village) which is located close to the A Coy base. These men and the rest of 3RAR will soon be returning to Australia as the Battalion completes a two year operational tour of Malaya. The men are armed with Owen machine carbines and a 7.62mm Fabrique Nationale (FN) self loading rifle (SLR).
3/410493 Private (Pte) Noel Smith, of Collingwood, Vic, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), Looks back across the Sungei (river) Plus towards the dense jungle of Northern Malaya where
To keep their visual skills at peak efficiency, every spare moment is taken up in training runs by the highly skilled Iban trackers. Here, Sarawak Ranger, Private Budong (foreground), is following a t
Two brothers in the Australian Regular Army, 4/1651 Private (Pte) (later Lance Corporal) William John (Bill) Casey, (left) and 4/1954 Pte Ronald B (Ron) Casey (right), both of Renmark, SA, 3rd Battali
Soldiers of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), stationed at Kuala Kangsar, North Perak, Malaya, are playing host to eight English sailors from the British frigate, HMS Mount Bay. For
Informal portrait of three Australian soldiers from 6 Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) who were involved in an ambush on 3 July 1958, which resulted in the death
Due to return to Australia soon with his Battalion, 2/9198 Private Richard K (Dick) Martell, of Ariah Park, NSW, A Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), says goodbye to one of
