6776 Major (Maj) Harry Arthur Smith of Brisbane, QLD (extreme left), Officer Commanding Delta ...

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Accession Number FOR/66/0676/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Long Tan
Date made 19 August 1966
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

6776 Major (Maj) Harry Arthur Smith of Brisbane, QLD (extreme left), Officer Commanding Delta Company, 6th Battalion Royal Australia, Regiment (6RAR), holds a briefing in the field shortly before his company returned to Long Tan, the scene of their epic lone stand against a crack North Vietnamese battalion. Identified, left to right: Maj Harry Smith; 2781294 Second Lieutenant (2Lt) David Rae Sabben, OC 12 Platoon; 37822 Corporal Phillip Ness Dobson, Company Medic; 43433 2Lt Geoffrey Martin Kendall, OC 10 Platoon (holding rifle); 55106 Sergeant (Sgt) Robert Stanley ‘Bob’ Buick (obscured by Kendall); 13605 Sgt Donald Albert ‘Jack’ Thomson, Company Mortar Fire Controller; 33140 Captain Maurice ‘Morrie’ Stanley, Forward Observation Officer of 161 Battery RNZA; 215672 Lance Corporal Graham Roxburgh Smith, Regimental Signaller, (holding right-angled torch under his left arm) and 27758 Warrant Officer 2 John William ‘Jack' Kirby, Company Sergeant Major (CSM) (back to camera).

In the background is a Bell 47G Sioux helicopter, A1-404, the serial number #404 is visible on the front of the cockpit 'bubble'. This aircraft is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, collection referencce REL/04248.