The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 his forward company base in Sarawak. Most of the forward bases do not have connecting roads and can only be resupplied by parachute air drop and helicopters. Pte McCoombe later 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.
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, Th
16605 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Robert G (Bob) Groves, of Nambour, Qld, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), on his way to the quartermasters store loaded up with a pile of new jungle boot
Two unidentified soldiers from 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), watch as supplies float down via parachute to the landing zone (LZ) of their forward company base. As no roads link
Men from 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), strengthening the defences with barbed wire at their forward base in Sarawak. Identified from left to right: 210062 Private (Pte) Peter Ed
Comparing their tattoos is Gani (left), an Iban tracker with the Sarawak Rangers and 16788 Private (Pte) Warren Reginald Mears, of Maryborough, Qld, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR)
15730 Private Kenneth F (Ken) Moore, of Stanthorpe, Qld, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), lugging a supply parachute on his shoulder from the landing zone (LZ), after a supply drop
