The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 the many Malayan children the Australians have assisted and supported whilst operating in Malaya. This small boy is from the local kampong (village) located close to the A Coy base camp in Northern Malaya. Pte Martell was accidentally injured during his operational tour of Malaya and he is armed with an Owen machine carbine. Note the children are wearing Songkok, traditional headdress, on their heads.
2/9198 Private (Pte) Richard K (Dick) Martell, of Ariah Park, NSW, A Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), gets down for a friendly chat whilst sharing his biscuit ration with
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)
4/410104 Private (Pte) Peter Donnelly, of Adelaide, SA, A Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), gives a packet of biscuits to a group of local children as he climbs an embankme
Three unidentified soldiers from 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), say goodbye to some local children standing on a bamboo landing on the Sungei (river) Plus in Northern Malaya. 3RA
Informal portrait of 2/7758 Corporal (Cpl) John William 'Big Jack' Kirby, aged 23, of Lewisham, NSW, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. Whilst out on a jungle patrol, Cpl Kirby and three ot
4/2186 Private Edgar B (Ed) Sherry (left), aged 20, of Port Pirie, SA, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), showing Sanseng Allan, a local tribesman, his 9mm Owen machine carbine. Sans
