The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Pausing to tighten his boot laces is 2/9729 Sapper (Spr) Allan F W Reece, aged 20, of Mona Vale, NSW, 1st Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), during the construction of a 500 yard long airfield at Fort Tapong in Northern Malaya. Members of the RAE are helping to carve the field out of virgin jungle, using only hand tools and explosives. Fort Tapong is a Malayan police outpost near the Thai border and is used by Australian and other Commonwealth troops as a stepping off camp for jungle operations. Spr Allan is armed with a Short Magazine Lee Enfield, Number 5, jungle carbine.
In the process of felling a tree is 1/4428 Sapper Bruce H Best, aged 22, of Thangool, Qld, 1st Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), during the construction of a 500 yard long airfield at For
A good afternoon's catch of fish from the Perak river, proudly displayed by 2/1371 Sergeant (Sgt) Harry Buckley, of Liverpool, NSW, 1st Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). Sgt Buckley is having a
A good afternoon's catch of fish from the Perak river, proudly displayed by 2/1371 Sergeant (Sgt) Harry Buckley, of Liverpool, NSW, 1st Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). Sgt Buckley is having a
Using a changol (Chinese hoe) is 2/411207 Sapper Len R Yeomans, aged 21, of Parramatta, NSW, 1st Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), during the construction of a 500 yard by 50 yard airfiel
Holding a small section of bamboo root which has just been blasted out of the ground after a demolition charge was fired, is 2/5625 Captain Laurence A (Laurie) Wright, of Croydon NSW, 1st Field Troop
Cutting a piece of bamboo using a bow saw is 6/1180 Sapper Lyle B Davis, of Box Hill, Vic, 1st Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). The sappers are clearing a 500 yard length of jungle in pr
