A base camp being set up by members of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), in a ...

Accession Number HOB/56/0319/MC
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made Malaya: Kedah
Date made 26 January 1956
Conflict Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A base camp being set up by members of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), in a rubber plantation in Southern Kedah. The two soldiers in the foreground are busy erecting the bamboo poles which will support their poncho shelter. A Bren gun, resting on its bipod is sitting outside the shelter in the centre. The cuts in the rubber tree on the right can clearly be seen and the raw latex is being collected in a small metal cup which is attached to the tree.

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