Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Private Phillip Cox of Footscray, Vic, a signaller ...

Accession Number JON/70/0616/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Jones, Michael John
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province
Date made 1970
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Private Phillip Cox of Footscray, Vic, a signaller with C Company, 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), talks over a radio to a helicopter pilot on a re-supply mission. Soldiers of 2RAR were working as a protection party for a land clearing team in jungle north west of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat.