The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Soldiers of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), stationed at Kuala Kangsar, North Perak, Malaya, are playing host to eight English sailors from the British frigate, HMS Mount Bay. For two weeks, the Australian instructors passed on their knowledge gained through months of patrols in the jungles of North Perak to the six seamen and two petty officers. Here, two sailors are checking their target cards (attached to a dried palm frond) after completing a shoot at the company rifle range. Identified left to right: 2/8060 Sergeant John E Collins, of Sydney, NSW; 5/1736 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Robert Glynn (Glynn) Herbert, of Tambellup, WA; Able Seaman (AB) Denis Barkwell, of Wiltshire, England; AB Mervin Morse, of Gloucestershire, England. LCpl Herbert also served in Korea with 3RAR between 1951 and 1953. The sailors are using 7.62mm Fabrique Nationale (FN) self loading rifles (SLR).
Two brothers in the Australian Regular Army, 4/1651 Private (Pte) (later Lance Corporal) William John (Bill) Casey, (left) and 4/1954 Pte Ronald B (Ron) Casey (right), both of Renmark, SA, 3rd Battali
Children come out to greet three unidentified Australians from A Company (A Coy), 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) who are finishing their jungle patrol at a local kampong (village)
3/410493 Private (Pte) Noel Smith, of Collingwood, Vic, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), Looks back across the Sungei (river) Plus towards the dense jungle of Northern Malaya where
To keep their visual skills at peak efficiency, every spare moment is taken up in training runs by the highly skilled Iban trackers. Here, Sarawak Ranger, Private Budong (foreground), is following a t
5/1487 Warrant Officer Class 2 Don Symonds, of Victoria Park, WA (back), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), gives instruction on the new Belgian, Fabrique Nationale (FN) Self Loading
Informal portrait of three Australian soldiers from 6 Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) who were involved in an ambush on 3 July 1958, which resulted in the death
