A patrol of soldiers from A Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR) cleaning ...

A patrol of soldiers from A Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR) cleaning their weapons after returning from a patrol. The soldiers are all wearing British Army jungle greens and from the general condition of their boots and trousers they have been out in the rain. This patrol was most likely confined to the Sarawak side of the border as patrols into Indonesian Kalimantan, Claret Operations, usually carried British issued FN or Self Loading Rifles (SLR). A Company 4RAR were based at Gumbang, a company base close to the border, and the most southerly of the 4RAR company positions located on a ridge line close to the Sarawak-Kalimantan border and a major Indonesian infiltration route.