1/2296 Warrant Officer 2 (WO2), Alan L Lawson, of Coorparoo, Qld, Company Sergeant Major of B ...

Accession Number MIS/57/0056/MC
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker Army Public Relations
Place made Malaya: Perak
Date made March 1957
Conflict Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Copyright

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Description

1/2296 Warrant Officer 2 (WO2), Alan L Lawson, of Coorparoo, Qld, Company Sergeant Major of B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), admiring a caged dove at the house of the headman on the Sakai Reserve. WO2 Lawson is visiting the reserve as part of a recruitment drive to enlist local men as bearers to take supplies through the jungle and up to the Australian patrols of 2RAR.

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