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

The American 41st Battalion's communications box at Nui Dat, Vietnam. This was a metal container about 4 metres long by 2 metres square. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collected by 2784336 Signalman (Sig) Stuart Lindsay Weller, 104 Signal Squadron, relating to his service in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968. Sig Weller notes: "It contained all the radio, teleprinter and voice equipment they needed to install a communications link, and above all, it was air conditioned – with a real air conditioner. My friend John Spindler was one of the detachment who worked in the box and I enjoyed many hours in there swapping stories with him. ... The communications box had originally been sandbagged in a very short time, these rotted and the walls collapsed. The 41st then got serious about their sandbagging and at the time of this photograph they were about half way through the effort. When the sandbagging was completed they built a wooden building over it all to keep the bags dry and ensure they didn’t have to rebuild it again."