The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The headman of a Borneo village (right), dressed in an Australian army shirt and bush hat, points out a jungle trail to 15979 Private (Pte) Eric L McCoombe (left), of Innisfail, Qld, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), during a jungle patrol. Pte McCoombe, is armed with a 7.62mm L1A1 self loading rifle (SLR), which has been fitted with a 30 round L4 magazine. There is also a 36M hand grenade attached to his belt. Pte McCoombe served in South Vietnam with 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) between 1967 and 1968 and with the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) during 1971.
15979 Private (Pte) Eric Lindsay McCoombe, of Innisfail, Qld, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), gathers up a supply parachute that dropped supplies into the landing zone adjacent to
54864 Private Ian Ronald Ramsay, of Perth, WA, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), crossing over a log bridge in the jungle of Sarawak, where the battalion is engaged in security oper
Informal portrait of 54415 Private (Pte) Patrick T (Pat) Brookes, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), of Perth, WA, making his way through dense jungle foliage as he patrols along the
Iban tracker, Gani (right), a Sarawak Ranger, examines a leaf for clues of enemy activity with 15735 Private (Pte) Herbert W (Herb) Grunow (left), of Virginia, Qld, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian
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
Waiting his turn to move into the jungle is 1/3577 Private (Pte) Dan V Millington, of Townsville, Qld, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), during the beginning of an operational patro
