The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 preparation for the construction of an airfield at Fort Tapong in Northern Malaya. Fort Tapong is a Malayan police outpost near the Thai border and is used by Australian and other Commonwealth troops as a stepping off point for jungle operations and patrols.
A line of six unidentified Sappers of 1st Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), using hoes to break up the soil of a newly cleared strip of land in preparation for the construction of a 500 y
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
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
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
