Collection related to the service of Corporal Trent Grall, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR)

Place Asia: Vietnam, Phuoc Tuy Province, Nui Dat
Accession Number P01783.016
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour
Physical description Colour
Maker Unknown
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Nui Dat
Date made October 1967
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Informal group portrait of members of the Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company, the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), as they are about to leave the 1st Australian Task Force (ATF) base to go out on Operation Santa Fe. The soldiers include Corporal Trent Grall (back row, extreme left) and Private (Pte) P. Z. Trzecinski (front row, extreme right). The soldiers are dressed in new light-weight jungle green uniforms that they are wearing for the first time on operations. Pte Trzecinski was killed in action on 27 January 1968.