The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 4/1894 Gunner (Gnr) (later Lance Bombardier) Leon R Anderson, of Hilton, SA, B Troop, 100th ‘A’ Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) cleaning and polishing the open breach of a QF 25 pounder field gun. Since being posted to Malaya, Gnr Anderson and his friend Lance Bombardier Frank Halliday (not pictured) have built two boats (without plans or special tools), a 12 foot VJ and an 18 foot Snipe, with a view to using them for fishing on the local river during their off duty hours. Neither has found time to fish but their success has encouraged others to join in and their boat building group has rapidly grown.
Unidentified gunners from B Troop, 100th 'A' Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), duck as the blast from a 4.2 inch mortar thumps in their ears during test firing in Perak, Northern Malaya
Unidentified gunners from B Troop, 100th 'A' Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), duck as the blast from a 4.2 inch mortar thumps in their ears during test firing in Perak, Northern Malaya
A shrewd operator, 3/2653 (VX69757) Gunner (Gnr) Bob Heveren of Prahran, Vic, of B Troop, 105th Field Battery, uses an old wheel barrow to save wear and tear on his shoulders as he carts cases of 25 p
Brigadier (Brig) H J Mogg (left), Commander, 28th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade talks with unidentified gunners of A Troop, 100th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) as they stand
3/5662 Gunner Noel Cook (left), aged 21, of Camberwell, Vic, B Troop, 100th 'A' Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), receiving instruction from Sergeant V Melvin (right), of Liverpool, Eng
Two British non commissioned officers (NCO) (wearing berets), 48th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (RA), instructing a group of unidentified Australian gunners from B Troop, 100th 'A' Field Battery, R
