A historic moment at Australia House in Da Nang as Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO) Keith Charlton of ...

Accession Number FOD/71/0590/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Ford, John Alfred
Place made Vietnam: Quang Nam Province, Da Nang
Date made December 1971
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

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Description

A historic moment at Australia House in Da Nang as Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO) Keith Charlton of Manly, NSW (left), and WO2 Maxwell Poole of Canungra, Qld, lower the Australian and South Vietnamese flags. High ranking officers of the Australian, American and South Vietnamese armies attended a farewell party later in the day to mark the handing over of Australia House.