Accession Number | S03482 |
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Collection type | Sound |
Measurement | 7 min 21 sec |
Object type | Oral history |
Physical description | 1/4 inch sound tape reel; BASF; 7 1/2 ips/19 cm.s; mono; 5 inch |
Maker |
Atkinson, James Briggs, Russell Charles Nairn, Mervyn Douglas Stuart, Robert John Logan, Lance |
Date made | 1966 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Commonwealth of Australia copyright |
Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Warrant Officer Class 2 James Atkinson as an administrative warrant officer 1st Australian Rest and Convalescent Centre, Private Russell Charles Briggs as a member of 5th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, Gunner Mervyn Douglas Nairn as a member of Detachment 131st Divisional Locating Battery and Private Robert John Stuart as a member of 5th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, all South Vietnam 1966-1967, interviewed by Major Lance Logan
Description
Atkinson speaks of the facilities for soldiers at the Rest and Convalescent Centre, Vung Tau and the role of the Centre in providing casualty recuperation. Briggs and Stuart speak of their appreciation of their five days' rest and convalescence at Vung Tau following Operation Queanbeyan, in the Nui Thi Vai complex of Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, October 1966, and Nairn of similar appreciation after a counter-mortar defence of 1st Australian Task Force base, Nui Dat.
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Warrant Officer Class 2 James Atkinson as an administrative warrant officer 1st Australian Rest and Convalescent Centre, Private Russell Charles Briggs as a member of 5th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, Gunner Mervyn Douglas Nairn as a member of Detachment 131st Divisional Locating Battery and Private Robert John Stuart as a member of 5th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, all South Vietnam 1966-1967, interviewed by Major Lance Logan