Digger, ' C' Company, 7 RAR

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Accession Number ART40641
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 58.4 x 39 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description charcoal and rubbing out on paper
Maker McFadyen, Ken
Place made Vietnam
Date made 1967-1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Head and shoulders portrait of an Australian soldier of 'C' Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), with a towel hanging over his shoulder. This soldier was involved in Operation Santa Fe, a multi-brigade search and destroy mission directed against the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) north of the Australian Task Force (ATF) base at Nui Dat. This operation ran between October and November 1967.