A view looking down on the hill as some of the facilites of the company base at Gumbang, occupied ...

Accession Number P06312.014
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Graham, Alan Walter
Place made Borneo: Sarawak, Gumbang
Date made c 1966
Conflict Indonesian Confrontation, 1962-1966
Copyright

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Description

A view looking down on the hill as some of the facilites of the company base at Gumbang, occupied by A Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR) between April and September 1966. This was the most southerly of the 4RAR company positions and was located on a ridge line close to the Sarawak-Kalimantan border and a major Indonesian infiltration route.