Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian ...

Accession Number	HOB/56/0633/MC
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Film original negative 5x4" safety base
Maker	Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made	Malaya: Perak, Ipoh
Date made	July 1956
Conflict	Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Sir Henry Wells, KBE, CB, DSO, Chief of the General Staff Australian Army (second from left), inspects the vehicle lines of the Australian component of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC) which is attached to 3 Company (3 Coy) Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) at their base Headquarters in Ipoh, Perak. He is accompanied by 2/35019 Captain Anson E Goodall of Canberra, ACT, Headquarters, 3 Coy RASC (left) and is talking to 3/5742 Private (later Lance Corporal) Eddie Ford, of Benalla, Vic (right), a driver with 126th Transport Platoon, RAASC. The line of vehicles are GMC, CCKW-353 two and a half ton trucks.