Unidentified men of C Company 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR/NZ) and members ...

Accession Number P10201.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Film original transparency (positive) other
Maker Green, Allan R
Place made Vietnam: Hat Dich
Date made January 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

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Description

Unidentified men of C Company 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR/NZ) and members of A Squadron 3 Cavalry Regiment, taking a break in a rubber plantation during Operation Duntroon. The Battalion was known officially as 2RAR/NZ (ANZAC), because it incorporated a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. A local South Vietnamese man appeared as soon as the APCs stopped, set up a temporary barber'shop" and commenced cutting hair.