The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 335026 Major (Maj) Max Johnstone, of Ouyen, Vic, Officer Commanding (OC), 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). Known as the 'road boss', his sappers are building a 70 mile stretch of sealed roadway through the rainforest of Sabah in North Borneo. Maj Johnstone previously served in Korea with the Australian Ancillary Unit Korea (AAUK) during 1955 and he saw service during the Malayan Emergency during the late 1950's. He went on to serve in South Vietnam with Headquarters Australian Forces Vietnam (HQ AFV) between 1969 and 1970 where he was awarded the Public Works Service Medal, 2nd Class by the Government of the Republic of Vietnam.
Informal portrait of 335026 Major (Maj) Max Johnstone, of Ouyen, Vic, Officer Commanding (OC), 24 Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). Known as the 'road boss', his sappers are bui
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
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
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
A lonely stretch of newly constucted roadway in the Malaysian state of Sabah which was completed by the sappers of 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). This section of road is the highe
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 Aus
