Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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Vietnam War. March 1971. Private Philip Klemm stands guard with his M60 machine gun as his mates search a house in Phuoc Tuy Province. Three Viet Cong guerillas were reported to be in the area, but no sign of them was found. Private Klemm is a soldier of B Company, 2RAR/NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and a component from 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment). Photo by Philip Errington. [AWM PJE/71/0126/VN]

 

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Forward scout Private Rod Tulley (probably 1735922 Ronald Tully), 22, from Cairns, Qld, calls up his patrol with a silent hand signal. He is a soldier of 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), operating in the north west of Phuoc Tuy Province, in an area known to have harboured an enemy engineer battalion.
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Original description and photo sourced by
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Francis "Frankie" John Hunt with his family onstage at the Welcome Home Concert in The Domain, Sydney. On 8 May 1969, Hunt enlisted with the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), as a Private (service number 39701) and served as a forward scout with the battalion in the Vietnam War. On 21 July 1969, he was on patrol with 3 Platoon, A Company, 6RAR, when Lieutenant Peter Hines stepped on a mine, which activated and killed the latter. The explosion injured several others, including Hunt, who was standing closest to Hines. Hunt was air-lifted to the military hospital in Vung Tau and then evacuated to Australia for further surgery at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital to amputate his severely injured legs. He spent 19 months in rehabilitation in Australia. In 1983, musician John Schuman wrote and released the song "I Was Only 19" which was performed by his band, Redgum. The song references Hunt and the mine explosion: "Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon" and was performed onstage in The Domain for the Welcome Home Concert.
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Original description and photo sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1270672.

 

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Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967. Singer Lorrae Desmond on stage entertaining soldiers of 5th and 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR and 6RAR), and other Australian Task Force units. She was singing with the ABC dance band, to over 1000 troops on two 2-hour shows.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C312262

 

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Australian Government introduces National Service
On the 10th of November 1964, the Australian Government introduced selective conscription of 20 year old males, by ballot, under the National Service Act. The fourth period of National Service, in May 1965 the Coalition Government introduced new powers that enabled it to send national servicemen overseas.
All 20-year-old males had to register with the Department of Labour and National Service, and their names were selected by the "birthday ballot", in which men were randomly selected for national service by their date of birth. Those who were selected for national service were required to serve for two years full-time in the Regular Army and three years part-time in the reserves.
Exemptions were given to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, the medically unfit, and theology students. Young men were granted exemption on the grounds of conscientious objection if they could prove their objection to war was based on religious beliefs. A temporary deferment of national service was granted to university students, apprentices, married men, and those who could prove that national service would cause them financial hardship.
From 1965 to 1972, over 15,300 national servicemen served in the Vietnam War. 200 of these men made the ultimate sacrifice, and 1,279 were wounded. The National Service scheme was abolished on 5 December 1972 by the newly elected Labor Government.
Today, let us pause to remember all Nashos who served their nation – they may not have chosen to serve, but they did their duty with bravery and in the finest traditions of the Australian Army.
Lest we forget
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Image: Lance-Corporal Norman (Normie) Rowe from Victoria, A Squadron 3rd Cavalry Regiment in his M113 armoured personnel carrier (APC) at Fire Support Base Kerry, Bien Hoa Province, February 1969. The popular Australian singer was conscripted for National Service, and served in Vietnam from 14 January 1969 until 19 December 1969

 

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A Salute to the Veterans. Lest We Forget.
Phuoc Tuy Province March 1968. Radio Operator Private Doug Poole of Athol Park, SA, speaks on his field wireless set to pilots of US Army Iroquois helicopters waiting to lift troops of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) from the Task Force base to the Long Hai Hills. The mission, Operation Pinnaroo, is still in progress.
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Original description and photo sourced by:
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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. November 1971. Private Peter Edwards of Bega, NSW (left), and Private Ben Reynolds of Dubbo, NSW, retrieve Claymore mines, stamped `Front toward enemy', from their unit perimeter prior to their departure from the former 1st Australian Task Force Base (1ATF) at Nui Dat. Members of B Company, 4RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), the two soldiers were involved in the final evacuation of the area which marked the end of Australia's combat role in the war.
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Original description and photo sourced by
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You've got all the big names on this page, Normie Rowe, Lorrae Desmond, Frank Hunt.

 

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Australian members of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) with US Special Forces in the command bunker at the old French fort at Ngok Tavak. Identified, left to right: Sergeant First Class (SFC) Harold H. Swicegood; 17093 Captain (Capt) John Ernest D White AATTV; Sergeant (Sgt E-5) Kenneth J Benway, medic, 11th Company Da Nang Mike Force; Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Frank Lucas; Sgt David A. Blomgren; ?Sgt Miller and WO2 Donald George (Don) Cameron. Capt White joined the AATTV in February 1968. He was soon commanding a 120-strong company of Americans, Chinese mercenaries, and Montagnards near the Laotian border. On 10 May White's company was attacked by a large North Vietnamese force at Ngok Tavak. Hand-to-hand combat took place, but two Australian warrant officers, Don Cameron and Frank Lucas, bravely led a counter-attack that prevented the fort from being overrun. WO2 Cameron was commander of one of three platoons which platoon came under heavy ambush between 8 to 10 May 1968 from Viet Cong (VC) near Ngok Tavak. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) on 1 January 1970 for his actions in Vietnam whilst serving as a WO Class 1 with the AATTV. WO2 Cameron served in Vietnam from 20 October 1965 to 19 October 1966 and also completed a second tour from 18 February 1968 to 20 November 1968. Cameron originally enlisted in Second World War as a private on 19 December 1944 and was discharged in 1947. He next served as a Lance Corporal with 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) in Korea where he was awarded the Military Medal (MM) on 1 January 1952. He was awarded a second MM on 6 March 1969 in Vietnam with AATTV.
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Original description and photo sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1161564
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Vietnam War. Phuoc Tuy Province. 1967. Marvellous!! Private Frank Baker of 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), hits out with the bat while villagers show interest in the first cricket game they have ever seen. This impromptu game of cricket is taking place in a village near the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat. Photo by Sergeant Michael Coleridge. [AWM COL/67/0151/VN]

 

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Vietnam War. Phuoc Tuy Province. October 1970. Going home on a Wallaby. Australian troops wait to board a DHC-4 Caribou STOL transport aircraft of No. 35 Squadron RAAF (aka Wallaby Airlines), at Luscomb Field, Nui Dat. This will be the first leg of their journey home to Australia. Photo by 2nd Lieutenant Paul Asbury, 85th Transport Platoon, Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC). [AWM P08445.020]

 

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Gunners from 161 Battery, Royal New Zealand Artillery (RNZA), checking and adjusting the clinometer on an 105 mm L5 Pack Howitzer, prior to a shoot against suspected VC positions in a forward area of Phuoc Tuy Province during Operation Ingham. Identified from left: Gunner Phil Johnson; Gun Sergeant Trevor Pilcher; 2nd Lieutenant Gordon Stevenson. The gunner (background) is unidentified.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1178208

 

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Members of the New Zealand forces in Vietnam with an American officer examining weapons: from far left, Warrant Officer Baird, Warrant Officer Roe, Warrent Officer Muir, Warrant Officer Cootes, Warrent Officer Jaggo, an American Lieutenant Bauer.
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Photograph and description sourced by: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C63911

 

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Captured enemy weapons, including AK47 assault rifles and a PPSh-41 submachine gun recovered from the Long Tan battle site by D (Delta) Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) when the company returned to the scene of its bitter engagement with the (VC) D445 Provincial Mobile Battalion at Long Tan. Identified, left to right; 1410985 Lance Corporal Gordon Keith Crowther, 2781829 Private Peter James Doyle and 214543 Corporal William Richard "Bluey" Moore.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C36894

 

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South Vietnam. 1971. Sergeant Frank Cashmore, 2 Squadron, Special Air Service (SAS), During A Patrol.
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Original description and photo sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C246971

 

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Vietnam. c.1968-01. Informal group portrait of members of Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), at the battalion lines, about to leave on Operation Coburg. Left to right: back row: Private (Pte) Peter Budworth, Pte `Canvas' Back, Corporal Trent Grall, Pte ?, Pte Paul Zigmund Trzecinski (killed in action); front row: Pte Les Deeble, Pte Steve Bowles, Pte Johnson
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We remember Private Ian Gibbs
Today we pause to remember the life and service of 5715657 Private Ian James Gibbs, who was killed on the 18th of November 1968 whilst serving in Vietnam.
A national serviceman, Ian was called up for service in 1968. On completion of his initial training he was posted to the 1st Australian Reinforcement Unit before being transferred to 1RAR and deploying with them to Vietnam in October that year.
On the 18th of November at 5pm Ian was tragically killed when a sentry mistook him for a Viet Cong and shot him at Phuoc Tuy.
Lest we forget.

 

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