The Sydney entertainer Patricia Amphlett (later Thompson), who performed as "Little Pattie", ...

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Accession Number P02283.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Ford, Darrell Colin
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Nui Dat
Date made August 1966
Conflict Indonesian Confrontation, 1962-1966
Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

The Sydney entertainer Patricia Amphlett (later Thompson), who performed as "Little Pattie", singing a song on the back of a US Army semi-trailer being used as a makeshift stage, accompanied Col Joye and the "Joyboys". This concert party had previously visited Australian troops in Malaysia in March and was the third Government sponsored entertainment party to visit Vietnam.