In the half light of dawn, with their 105mm L5 Pack Howitzer at full recoil, an Australian ...

In the half light of dawn, with their 105mm L5 Pack Howitzer at full recoil, an Australian artillery crew of the 102nd Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), let fly at a target from their forward company base in North Borneo, close to the Sarawak-Kalimantan border. The target is an Indonesian machine gun post which fired on a Royal Air Force aircraft only minutes earlier. Identified are 5411212 Gunner (Gnr) (later Warrant Officer Class 2) Edward John (Ted) Watson (left), of East Perth, WA and 37181 Gnr George Angelo Xuereb, of Albert Park, Vic. Gnr Watson served in Malaya and Singapore during the Indonesian Confrontation in the early 1960s and he later served in South Vietnam with the 12th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) between 1968 and 1969 and again in 1971. Gnr Xuereb also served in Malaya and Singapore during the Indonesian Confrontation in the early 1960s and he later served in South Vietnam with the 1st Field Regiment, RAA between 1966 and 1967 and with the 4th Field Regiment, RAA between 1970 and 1971.