The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A tracked excavating shovel used by 2 Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), loads mineral laterite into waiting three ton Commer dump trucks where it will be used as surface coating on a 9000 yard section of new roadway in Northern Malaya. The Sungei Kruda rubber estate can be seen in the background.
3/4812 Lieutenant Rex Rowe (left), of Redcliffs, Vic, 2 Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) and an unidentified British sapper (right) standing on the boom of a tracked excavating shovel as
Informal portrait 2/9304 Sapper Robert K (Bob) Rasmussen, of Riverwood, NSW, 2 Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), operating a grader as he drives along a new 9000 yard section of roadway i
Crawler dozer operator, 2/410746 Corporal (Cpl) Kevin G (Kev) Pearce, of Tahmoor, NSW, 2 Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), is assisting in the construction of a new 9000 yard section of r
Informal portrait 3/4812 Lieutenant Rex Rowe, of Redcliffs, Vic, 2 Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), who is responsible for pegging out the route of the new road that the engineers are co
Unidentified soldiers from the 'stand by' platoon of B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), head off into the rubber towards the jungle. They are hard on the heels of a recent
