Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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Informal portrait of 213963 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Richard Harold John "Tiny" Parker, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) taken in the field South Vietnam. On 8 November 1965, during Operation Hump in Bien Hoa province, L Cpl Tiny Parker, 24, of St Leonards, NSW, and Private Peter Raymond Gillson, 20, of Holsworthy, both regular army soldiers with 1 RAR, were killed in action Both soldiers were observed by their comrades to be hit repeatedly by enemy automatic weapons fire at close range. Despite brave attempts by other soldiers, their bodies could not be recovered owing to heavy enemy fire that pinned down their company. The remains of Gillson and Parker were located in May 2007 and were repatriated to Australia in June 2007 (AWM)

 

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Informal portrait of 215745 Corporal (Cpl) Robert Bernard Hickey. A soldier from Holsworthy, NSW, Cpl Hickey carried out two tours of Vietnam with the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). He was killed in action during the fighting at Fire Support Base Coral on 13 May 1968. (AWM)

 

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214719 Corporal Thomas Gosper, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. (AWM)

 

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Australian entertainer Patsy O'Hara kissing 14424 Corporal Clive William Crocker, and 2412053 Lance Corporal Andrew William Downey with his arm around TV personality Lynne Fletcher. Both men are members of 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (AWM)

 

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THE MEN OF WHISKEY COMPANY

Members of 3 Section, 1st Platoon, Whiskey 1 Company pose for a photograph at Nui Dat prior to heading out on an operation, circa 1967-68.

Back row (left to right): Pte Norman Ormsby, Cpl Phil McGrath, Pte William Housham; Pte P.A. Brown, Pte Cliff 'Tonga' Brown
Front row: (left to right): Pte Robert 'Bob' Brown, Pte Terence Steedman

Source: https://vietnamwar.govt.nz/browse/whiskey1

 

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LCpl 'Kare' Kaipara, 1 Platoon, W Company

 

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Pani Haronga served with 2 Platoon, W Company.

 

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Pte Harry Albert, M60 Gunner, 3 Section, 2 Platoon, W Company.

 

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WO2 I 'Ali' Barber, CSM of W Company in Vietnam.

 

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LCpl Jack Te Kani, 2IC 2 Section, 3 Platoon, W Company.

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. June 1970. Sergeant Frank Johnson of Mornington, Vic, of the Defence and Employment Platoon of Headquarters, 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat, holds a fourteen foot python snake which slithered into the platoon's operational field base in the north of the Province. The snake was adopted by the platoon as a mascot and flown back to Nui Dat.

Original description and photo sourced by: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C327133

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, February 1967. Two members of a patrol from B Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), push their way through tall grass searching for enemy forces near the Task Force base at Nui Dat during Operation Tamborine. In front with an M60 machine gun at the ready is Private (Pte) Garry Cassidy of Young, NSW, and behind is Pte Bruce Everard of Warrnambool, Vic.

Original photo and description sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/EKN/67/0084/VN/

 

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Vietnam. 1966-04-16. Field directions are explained by Second Lieutenant O. S. (Steve) Lind of North Melbourne, Vic, to Signaller Private Peter Tonkes of Seaton North, Adelaide, SA, on Operation Denver in Phuoc Long Province. The two soldiers are serving with 10 Platoon, the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR).

Original description and photo sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/CUN/66/0312/VN/

 

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Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam. 1968-05. At Fire Support Base (FSB) Harrington is US Army infantryman Staff Sergeant Don Williams of the 4th/12th Infantry Brigade, as he shares a beer with Sergeant Bob Moore of Newcastle, NSW, a member of 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), during Operation Toan Thang.

Original description and photo sourced by:
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C318381

 

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The snake was adopted by the platoon as a mascot and flown back to Nui Dat.

I'd bet good money that the helo crew were unaware of their cargo...

 

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Vietnam War. 1965. Australian soldier Warrant Officer class two (WO2) P. Cerda-Parvia (second right) instructs Montagnard tribesmen in the use of American weapons. Photo by Michael Barry Shannon. [AWM SHA/65/0078/VN]

 

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Vietnam War. October 1967. Private Bill Delaforce of 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), armed with an M60 machine gun, on the look out for Viet Cong from the top of an M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) on Operation Kenmore, a search and destroy mission in Phuoc Tuy Province. Photo by Kevin Thurgar. [AWM THU/67/0931/VN]

 

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Vietnam War. Bien Hoa Province. c 3 December 1968 - 19 February 1969. M113 APC troops of A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), out on Operation Goodwood. Photo by Denis Stanley Gibbons. [AWM P04655.510]

 

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Australian soldiers preparing to board UH-1D "Hueys", South Vietnam, August 26, 1967.

 

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Vietnam War. Battle of Coral–Balmoral. 12 May – 6 June 1968. Soldiers, most from C Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), on top of a Centurion Mk V/1 tank, 'mop-up' after heavy fighting at Fire Support Base (FSB) Balmoral in Bien Hoa Province, about 25 miles north of Saigon. Identified left to right are: Lance Corporal Erasmus Kiellerup; Sergeant Len Allen; Troopers Daniel Kenny and Ambrose 'Bluey' Crowe; and an unidentified infantry officer. The squadron's Centurion tanks supported troops from 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), in repulsing an estimated two North Vietnamese Army battalions who stormed the base with rockets, mortars and a ground attack. Photo by Richard Crothers. [AWM CRO/68/0579/VN]