Collection related to 2784336 Signalman Stuart Lindsay Weller, 104 Signal Squadron, and his service in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968.

Accession Number P12186.022
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker Wiley, Colin James
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Ap Suoi Nghe
Date made 3 May 1967 - 12 March 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright

Description

A house in the Australian-created village of Ap Soi Nghe, Vietnam. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collected by 2784336 Signalman Stuart Lindsay Weller, 104 Signal Squadron, relating to his service in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968. Sig Weller notes: "We Australians created a village just to the north of the Task Force base by relocating all the remotely located population of Phuoc Tuy into a village we could then keep an eye on. It was named Ap Soui Nghe but because it was created fairly quickly – by bulldozing a section of jungle – and the 'houses' were built somewhere else and dropped on site, Australians always referred to it as Ap Soui Nescafe – in recognition of its instant nature."