Group portrait of members of 5 platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment ...

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Accession Number P01306.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker copyright unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Holsworthy
Date made 15 August 1964
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work

Description

Group portrait of members of 5 platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) who undertook a basic unarmed combat course.

Back row, left to right: Jim Scott (probably 215274 Private James Maxwell Scott; 214915 (Temporary) Sergeant Kevin Anthony Okane; 215114 Corporal David ‘Surfy’ Ron Fazackerley; Rick Duffy; 18332 (Temporary) Sergeant Peter Barham

Middle row: 54157 Corporal Ian Robert Brown (Killed in action, South Vietnam, 21 June 1966); Graham Heywood; Bob Faulkner (probably 18311 Robert John Faulkner); "Blue" Cullen (18307 Lance- Corporal David Jackson Cullen); Ray (Boris) O'Brian (possibly 16217 Raymond Charles O’Brien; Fred Elliot; 214287 Sergeant Alan William Ahearn (Died of wounds, South Vietnam. 14 May 1970); Ned Mccaulliffe (possibly 17674 Sergeant Edward John McAuliffe); 42774 Corporal Reginald ‘Reg’ Hedley Hillier (Killed in action, South Vietnam, 29 November 1965); Jim Crowther; Mick Coleman;

Front Row: 37344 Private Robert ‘Bob’ Charles Lengnick; 214731 Private Jeffery ‘Jeff’ Alan Porter; 36485 Sergeant (Temporary Warrant Officer Class 2) John Thomas Durrington (Killed in action, South Vietnam, 30 May 1968); Ray ‘Ginger’ Scutts; 2410693 Private Christoper ‘Chris’ Lake Gowing; Mick Laurigan.