The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A group of men of 'stand by' platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), check their maps before heading by truck to a jumping off point at a rubber plantation on the fringe of the jungle, where they will take up the trail of a recently seen band of Communist terrorists. Some of the men have Owen guns slung over their shoulders. Identified (centre) is Lance Corporal Wally Thompson.
Soldiers from A Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), crossing a wooden bridge as they move through a rubber plantation in Southern Kedah to a new camp site in the jungle, to c
Men of Support Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), collecting and eating their lunch from the company cookhouse which has been hastily erected in a rubber plantation, close
3/5569 Private Keith Kett, of Ivanhoe, Vic, B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), tightens a webbing strap holding two boxes of 24 hour rations together. The men in Pte Ketts
Lance Corporal (LCpl) Bob Watson, of Wynnum, Qld, B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), tightens his pack after loading it with six days worth of rations. The men in
Heavily laden men of D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), move through a rubber plantation as they hunt Communist terrorists in Perak. The men each have to carry over 60 pou
Unidentified men from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), dig drainage trenches around their base camp which has been set up on the fringe of a rubber plantation.
