5896 Private (Pte) Graham Fox of A Company, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) ...

Accession Number P04701.008
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Fox, Graham Douglas
Place made Borneo: Stass
Date made c 1965
Conflict Indonesian Confrontation, 1962-1966
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Description

5896 Private (Pte) Graham Fox of A Company, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) testing a "mattress" made of large leaves, while setting up a "hootchie" (two-man shelter) on patrol near the Stass Base Camp. Beside him is an L4A1 Bren Gun. The second 'mattress' is for the other member of the patrol, 16757 Pte Kevin (Kev) E "Sadie" Hawkins.

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