Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, VIETNAM. 1966-08-19. A SMILING 1731079 PRIVATE JOHN DAVID WINSTONE, SUPPORT SECTION COMPANY HEADQUARTERS, C COMPANY, 6TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (6RAR), WAITS TO BE LIFTED BACK TO NUI DAT AT THE END OF OPERATION SMITHFIELD. JOHN WAS AMONG TROOPS WHO ROUTED A LARGE VIET CONG FORCE DURING THE BATTLE AT LONG TAN.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C235170

 

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Members of 9 Platoon, C Company 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR/NZ) (Anzac), at the Nui Dat base firing range. Firing towards the Long Tan rubber plantation are left to right: 4718006 Private (Pte) John Phillip Millsteed, 217132 Pte John "Jock" Cassidy, 58717; 2nd Lieutenant Barry "The Lion King" Corse; 18283 Pte Ronald Thomas "Robo" Robinson; 43628 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Keith Garfield "Dobo" Dobson and 38462 Private (Pte) Henry James "Pedro" Webb.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1277600

 

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LONG TAN, VIETNAM. 19 AUGUST 1966. TROOPS IN A CLEARING IN THE RUBBER PLANTATION EXAMINE SOME OF THE VIET CONG WEAPONS CAPTURED BY D COMPANY, 6TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (6RAR), AFTER THE LONG TAN BATTLE. THE WEAPONS INCLUDED ROCKET LAUNCHERS, HEAVY MACHINE GUNS, RECOILLESS RIFLES, AND SCORES OF RIFLES AND CARBINES. LEFT TO RIGHT: 2781706 PRIVATE (PTE) A. L. PARR (WITH BACK TO CAMERA); CORPORAL (CPL) ROSS (BLACKMAC) MCDONALD; PTE (STING) HORNET; PTE PETER DOYLE (WITH WEAPON); PTE (POM) RENCHER; CPL (BLUEY) MOORE.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C36988

 

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LONG TAN, SOUTH VIETNAM. 19 AUGUST 1966. THREE SOLDIERS FROM D COMPANY, 6TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (6RAR), TAKE A BREAK AS THEY GATHER AUSTRALIAN WEAPONS LEFT ON THE BATTLEFIELD AFTER THE ACTION OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT WHEN THEIR COMPANY WAS FORCED TO STAND AND FIGHT AGAINST A COMBINED NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY/ VIET CONG FORCE OF ABOUT 2,500. LEFT TO RIGHT: PRIVATE (PTE) STAN HODDER OF AYR, QLD, PTE TERRY BURSTALL OF BALLARAT, VIC, AND PTE PETER DETTMAN OF TINGHA, NSW

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C234392

 

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Informal portrait of 2785384 Private (Pte) Nicholas Tremain, 9 Platoon C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) during a break in a patrol in the foot hills of the Nui Dinh mountains. Taken during the second stage of Operation Forrest in December 1967.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1277623

 

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South Vietnam. 1970-01. An enemy soldier and the capture of this Chinese Communist SKS rifle are the results of a contact between the Viet Cong and the soldiers of Matilda Force. Examining the weapon are four of the men in the action, from left: Private (Pte) Ivan Heard of Cairns, Qld; Pte Graham Dyer of Eidsvold, Qld; Corporal Raymond Fell of Erskineville, NSW; Pte John Kerkman of Pooraka, SA. Th...e Australians are from B Company of 6RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), providing infantry support for Operation Matilda, an armoured sweep through three provinces. Forty four armoured vehicles and 270 soldiers were involved in the sweep which was the largest Australian armoured operation mounted since World War II.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C324025

 

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Shoalwater Bay, Qld. September 1968. Sergeant (Sgt) John Carter of Benalla, Vic, an M113 armoured personnel carrier (APC) crew commander with B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), supporting the 9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (9RAR), in Exercise Riflebird at Shoalwater Bay. Sgt Carter was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for the role he played in bringing relief to the famous Delta Company of 6RAR at the battle of Long Tan in Vietnam in 1966.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C326049

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. February 1972. Captain John Wieland of Canungra, Qld (centre), discusses the training of a Cambodian battalion with the unit's commanding officer (left) with the help of a Vietnamese interpreter (right). Captain Wieland is one of thirty members of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) engaged in the training of Cambodian battalions at the Long Hai and Phuoc Tuy Training Centres in Phuoc Tuy Province.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C328492

 

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This is sickening. I hope their souls have found peace! So sad!

43528 Corporal (Cpl) Alan Walter Graham and his wife Raelene on the docks in Adelaide where Cpl Graham is waiting to board HMAS Sydney. Cpl Graham, a regular soldier, is serving with 9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (9RAR) and his battalion is departing for service in Vietnam. This is the last time both Cpl Graham and his wife will see each other as Cpl Graham was killed in action on 7 January 1969, and his wife Raelene died by her own hand on 8 January 1969, the day after she was notified of her husbands death in Vietnam. They are buried in the same grave at the Stirling North Cemetery, Port Agusta, SA.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1218202

 

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A backward glance and Private Barry Russell, 22, from Sandford, Qld, moves off again during a patrol in the north west of Phuoc Tuy Province. 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).

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C965580

 

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A backward glance and Private Barry Russell, 22, from Sandford, Qld, moves off again during a patrol in the north west of Phuoc Tuy Province. 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).

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C965580

Reminds me of this one. A slightly more annoyed Platoon Sergeant not taking kindly to all the noise the photographer was making.

 

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LONG TAN, SOUTH VIETNAM. 19 AUGUST 1966. THREE SOLDIERS FROM D COMPANY, 6TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (6RAR), TAKE A BREAK AS THEY GATHER AUSTRALIAN WEAPONS LEFT ON THE BATTLEFIELD AFTER THE ACTION OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT WHEN THEIR COMPANY WAS FORCED TO STAND AND FIGHT AGAINST A COMBINED NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY/ VIET CONG FORCE OF ABOUT 2,500. LEFT TO RIGHT: PRIVATE (PTE) STAN HODDER OF AYR, QLD, PTE TERRY BURSTALL OF BALLARAT, VIC, AND PTE PETER DETTMAN OF TINGHA, NSW

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C234392

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Terry used to attend the Battalion commemorations on ANZAC and Long Tan Days.
The year after he wrote his book he was involved in a couple of scuffles at the boozer. Everyone's a critic!

 

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A Centurion tank from C Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment, moves along a lane near the village of Hoa Long in Phuoc Tuy Province on its way towards a blocking position for a one day sweep by troops of 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). They combed an area of jungle and rice paddy with the tanks blocking any escape routes. Identified on top of the tank are, left, 36217 Sergeant (Sgt) Norman Leonard (Len) Allen; and right, 2785419 Trooper (Tpr) Daniel Edwin Kenny. The tank had callsign 32 Alpha (32A) and Army Registration Number 169037.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C319186

 

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Captured enemy weapons, including AK47 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 Viet Cong (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.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C36894

 

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The separated tail boom and fuselage of the Iroquois UH-1H helicopter gunship, A2-382, of No 9 Squadron RAAF, lying side by side on steel reinforcing plates that have been laid out over the uneven ground. The Iroquois ‘Bushranger’ was forced to undertake a beach landing in the Long Hai Hills when it was hit by ground fire on 20 June 1970, damaging the engine and fuel tank. Overnight it sustained further damage from sea water and it was written off. It was later salvaged and is shown here after being transported by a Chinook helicopter and stripped of its armaments. (Australia War Memorial)

 

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Kiwi arterillymen at work in Vietnam, 1969. Photo / Herald archives

 

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A New Zealand infantryman in Vietnam, 1969. Photo / Herald archives, APA New Zealand infantryman in Vietnam, 1969. Photo / Herald archives, AP NZ Herald

 

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Charge Sister Pamela Miley, RNZNC distributes clothing and toys to a group of orphaned children, circa 1969. Sister Miley was based at the 1st Australian Field Hospital in Vung Tau.

https://vietnamwar.govt.nz/photo/charge-sister-pamela-miley-with-vietnamese-orphans

 

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General William C. Westmoreland, Commander, US Military Assistance Command Vietnam, speaks with members of 1 Troop, C Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), about an enemy attack to the Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral, in North-West Bien Hoa Province. Both Coral and Balmoral had been attacked by the Viet Cong; most recently Balmoral had been attacked a few days before General Westmoreland made his farewell visit. Identified, left to right, in front of a Centurion tank, are Corporal Bill Burton, Crew commander; Troopers Jock Kay, Phil Payne, and Peter Lukeis.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C36734

 

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Tracker Gani (right), a Sarawak Ranger, examines a leaf for clues of enemy activity with Private Herbert W Grunow (left), of Virginia, Queensland, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR).