The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
3411421 Sapper William R (Bill) Vincent , of Albury, NSW (left, holding an Owen machine carbine) and 13640 Corporal (Cpl) A K (Ossie) Stack of Grovely, Qld (right), 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) take shelter under the tipper of their mud caked and spattered International (tipping teaspoon) dump truck as they look skyward toward an impending tropical storm. The sappers are working to complete a 70 mile stretch of road through thick rain forest and jungle in the state of Sabah. The men's boots are also caked in thick mud due to the unseasonal tropical rains which made the construction process difficult and arduous. Cpl Stack previously served as a lance corporal with 2 Troop RAE during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950's.
With it's front wheels spinning, soaking wet men from 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), struggle to get a Land Rover up a greasy muddy slope. The men are building a 70 mile s
Mud spattered and drenched from tropical rain, three army engineers from 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), wait on a newly cleared jungle road for transport back to their bas
Soaking wet men from 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), struggle to get a Land Rover up a greasy, muddy slope. Even with tyre chains fitted, this vehicle is sruggling to get t
Unidentified men from 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), work to construct a 70 mile long section of road through thick tropical rainforest in the state of Sabah, North Borneo
An International Harvester, TD15 crawler dozer, being operated by 16945 Sapper James N (Jim) White, of Grovely Qld, 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). The machine is clearing
Unidentified men from the 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), work to construct a 70 mile long section of road through the state of Sabah in North Borneo. A wheeled front end l
