Sapper (Spr) Geoff Coombs, 22, from Smithton, Tasmania, and a member of 1st Field Squadron, Royal ...

Accession Number THU/68/0120/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Thurgar, Kevin Denham
Place made Vietnam: Bien Hoa Province
Date made February 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Sapper (Spr) Geoff Coombs, 22, from Smithton, Tasmania, and a member of 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), about to lay a sandbag in place around a mortar bunker during Operation Coburg. [6708750 Spr Geoffrey John Coombs was killed in action in the Long Hai Hills area, Phuoc Tuy Province, on 22 March 1968.]

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