Keeping up with the news are 54864 Private (Pte) Ian Ronald Ramsay (left), of East Victoria Park, ...

Keeping up with the news are 54864 Private (Pte) Ian Ronald Ramsay (left), of East Victoria Park, WA and 5411011 Pte Roy D Dallimore (right), of Marylands, WA. They are checking the sporting guide in a newspaper for results of the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) matches. The two soldiers are members of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). The men are stationed at a forward base near the Indonesian border and are engaged in security operations along the Sarawak-Kalimantan border. Pte Ramsay later served in South Vietnam with 2nd Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) between 1968 and 1969 and with the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) between 1971 and 1972. He was awarded the South Vietnamese Staff Service Medal, 2nd Class, the Cambodian National Defence Medal with Bronze Star and the South Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm Unit Citation. Prior to serving in Borneo, Pte Dallimore also served in Malaya and Singapore with 3RAR. Both men are armed with Owen machine carbines.