The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) L Thompson (left), of Nedlands, WA, Deputy Commander, 1st Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment , is a member of the Citizen Military Forces (CMF) and is one of five CMF officers completing a two week tour of operational areas in Northern Malaya. Lt Col Thompson is getting a lesson in jungle tracking from an unidentified Iban tracker (centre) of the Sarawak Rangers who is attached to 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). 5/410739 Private (Pte) Arthur E Jackson (right), aged 22, of Kalgoorlie, WA, 1RAR, looks on. The Iban tracker is armed with a 7.62mm L1A1 self loading rifle (SLR) and Pte Jackson is armed with a 9mm Owen machine carbine.
Major (Maj) B G Rankine (left), of Margate, Qld, Citizen Military Forces (CMF) is getting a lesson in jungle tracking from an unidentified Iban tracker (centre) of the Sarawak Rangers who is attached
Captain (Capt) L R MacKay (left), of Broadview, SA, 8 Company, Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC) is a member of the Citizen Military Forces (CMF) and is one of five CMF officers completing a
Captain (Capt) J L O'Rourke (left), aged 35, of Preston, Vic, 2IC, 2nd Commando Company, Citizen Military Forces (CMF). Capt O'Rourke is getting a lesson in jungle tracking from an unidentified Iban t
Australian soldiers from Support Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), along with a local guide, a malayan interpreter and an Iban tracker are setting out from Fort Kemar, Pera
On the alert is 5/3615 Private (Pte) Fred R Harris, of Kalgoorlie, WA, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), as he carefully searches the jungle overhead while on an operational patrol
1/4157 Private (Pte) Steven J (Steve) Walton, aged 25, of Sandgate, Qld, A Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), wading through the Temengor River in Northern Malaya. Pte Walto
