A day prior to the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) embarking for home on the ...

Accession Number SWEJ0285
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker Sweeney, Vincent Joseph
Place made Korea: Inchon
Date made 22 March 1956
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
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Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

A day prior to the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) embarking for home on the trropship MV New Australia, the battalion had to be fed. Here, 13145 Private (Pte) WIlliam Alan Broomhall, of Mount Gravett, Qld (left), and 13605 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Donald Albert (Don) Thomson, of Proston, Qld (right) peel potatoes in preparation for one of the battalion's last meals in Korea before returning home to Australia.

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