The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Using an axe to trim a log is 1/4428 Sapper Bruce H Best, aged 22, of Thangool, Qld, 1st Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). The sappers are clearing a strip of jungle 500 yard long and 50 yards wide at Fort Tapong in Northern Malaya in preparation for constructing an airfield. The sappers are using only hand tools and explosives to complete the job. Fort Tapong is a Malayan police outpost near the Thailand border and is used by Australian and other Commonwealth troops as a lay over camp for jungle operations and patrols.
Vigorously clearing bamboo and jungle creepers with his machete is 3/5999 Sapper (Spr) Steve Carroll, aged 21, of South Perth, WA, 1st Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). The sappers are c
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
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
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
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
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
