Major Richard Gorman, left, the Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal for Vietnam, from Clovelly, NSW, ...

Major Richard Gorman, left, the Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal for Vietnam, from Clovelly, NSW, puts in a bid for one of the items at an auction sale of goods by the Australian Force Vietnam Provost Unit in the 1st Australian Logistics Support Group Base. The auction was a clearance sale of unclaimed, found, recovered, lost, and left behind goods by Australian soldiers in Vietnam. It was the first time Australians had held a clearance sale, so some of the goods dated back to the early years of the war. They included a transistor radio, cameras, watches and cigarette lighters. At the rostrum, the auctioneer, Captain J A Collin, second in charge (2IC) of the Unit, from Holsworthy, NSW, stirs up business by looking for another bid.