The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of2/8724 Private (Pte) Len Colless, of Katoomba, NSW, a former spray painter and now a signalman with B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), operating from Kroh near the Malayan Thailand border, using a number 88 field radio set. A staunch member of the North Leura cricket club, he still has a chance to play on the sports field (padang) at Kroh. Though there is plenty of mountain scenery near his camp, Pte Colless is looking forward to seeing the familiar rock formations of the Three Sisters, when he gets home.
5/7504 Major G l Bales, of Perth WA (right), Officer in Charge, B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), talks through the handset of an A510 radio set as his signaller,
After more than a week of 'jungle bashing' men of B Company (B Coy), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), relax on a playing field at their base camp in Kroh. A ground sheet pitch (for
Loaded up and ready for his patrol, 6/985 Private (Pte) Ian Lloyd, 24, of Ulverstone, Tas, 9 Platoon (9 Pl), C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), watches as helicopters from
Heavily laden members of 9 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), prepare to board a Westland Whirlwind helicopter from 155 Squadron RAF, which has landed on the spor
2/8909 Private (Pte) Ray Hutchins, of Port Arlington, Vic, D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), reckons he 'has the game sewn up' for restful nights when he's out on patrol
Members of 9 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), file past one of two British Westland Whirlwind helicopters from 155 Squadron RAF, which have landed on the sports
