Warrant Officer (WO) Norm Goldspink, CSM C Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment ...

Warrant Officer (WO) Norm Goldspink, CSM C Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) directing operations immediately after a mine detonated at C Company Headquarters. One of the casualties is being stretchered to a 9 Squadron Iroquois UH-1B helicopter waiting to take the casualites to Vung Tau. Between 13-14 February 1967 5RAR were conducting a cordon-and-search (Operation Beaumaris) of An Nhut, a small village between Long Dien and Dat Do, when a mine detonated at C Company's headquarters during a briefing of C Company officers and senior non-commissioned officers. Five of the group were wounded and three officers were killed; Major Donald Bourne, the Company Commander, Captain (Capt) Robert Milligan, second in command and the New Zealand artillery forward observer, Capt Peter Williams of 161 Field Battery. The explosion was thought to have been caused by an unrecorded ARVN booby trap left behind when old barbed wire barriers were removed from around the village. A remnant of the old barbed wire barrier is visible to the left. Identified from left to right: 212969 Sergeant Ralph Hindmarsh, 8 Pl, C Coy, 5RAR; 47046 Lieutenant George Roger Wainwright, Officer Commanding 8 Pl, C Coy, 5RAR; unidentified (on stretcher); unidentified; unidentified; unidentified RAAF crewman; Captain Anthony (Tony) White, Regimental Medical Officer, 5RAR.