Group portrait of A Section, 1st Topographical Survey Troop, outside their lines at the 1st ...

Accession Number P05339.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Nui Dat
Date made October 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work

Description

Group portrait of A Section, 1st Topographical Survey Troop, outside their lines at the 1st Australian Task Force Base, Nui Dat. Identified, left to right, back row: 38607 Corporal (Cpl) Peter John Dew, draftsman; 54659 Cpl Stephen Wood, surveyor; 3791485 Cpl Mario Apfelbaum, printer; 61656 Private (Pte) Dallas Colin Leary, cook; 216968 Sapper (Spr) John Malcolm Hunter, surveyor; 37378 Cpl Alfred John Rolfe, camera operator; 4718897 Spr Peter Sidwells Smith, clerk. Second row: 1200805 Spr Bruce John Wetzig, draftsman; 38612 Cpl Paul Thomas Alderson, draftsman; 43473 Cpl Michael Raymond Rice, printer; 38502 Spr William Neil Black, surveyor; 18425 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Dexter Garry Camps, driver; 216475 Sapper Trevor John Marsh, draftsman; 1200694 Spr Raymond Alexander Lawson, surveyor; 5715361 Spr Michael Sokil, storeman. Front row: 5821 Sergeant (Sgt) Eric Charles Clutterbuck, draftsman; 15542 Sgt Grant Edward Small, surveyor; 36566 Captain (Capt) Noel Sproles, 2nd in Command; 235151 Capt John Edward Bullen, Officer Commanding; 52770 Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2), Robert Birum Jones, troop sergeant major; 42054 Sgt Patrick David Cox, troop quarter master sergeant; 29608 Sgt Edward Morris, surveyor. WO2 Jones previously served in Korea with 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), between 1955 and 1956. Sgt Morris and LCpl Camps also previously served in Korea but their units and service dates are unknown.

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