Fawn cotton trousers : National Liberation Front

Fawm cotton trousers of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong). The trousers have slash style side pockets, a concealed button fly closure and five belt loops.

Part of a collection of Viet Cong clothing and equipment captured by an Australian Task Force patrol at 10 am on 17 April 1969. This material appears to have been gathered by a (New Zealand) patrol of 3 Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment. The patrol, operating in the Binh Ba area between 15 April 1969 and 23 April 1969, consisted of Sergeant W J Lillicrapp and Lance Corporals R T Williams, K Herewini, D A Pewhaiangi and P Wanoa. At 9:25 am on the 17th, the patrol entered an old Viet Cong campsite, and material was found strewn around the area. Fifteen minutes later, two Viet Cong were encountered and killed. Other material collected in this action is known to have included a pistol and two pounds of documents, none of which came to the Australian War Memorial.