Infantry recruits rest after training in dense bushland near Ingleburn, NSW. Facing the ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Ingleburn
Accession Number P06259.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker King, Roger
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Ingleburn
Date made January 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

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Description

Infantry recruits rest after training in dense bushland near Ingleburn, NSW. Facing the photographer is 2275420 Private, later Lance Corporal (LCpl) Martin Bink, who was deployed to Vietnam with the Anti-Tank Platoon, Support Company, the 9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (9RAR) in November 1968. A national serviceman from Narrabunda, Canberra, LCpl Bink was killed by a Viet Cong (VC) claymore mine on 5 November 1969, five days before he was due to return to Australia.