Armed with an L4A4 Bren gun and manning his position reinforced with sandbags and barbed wire, ...

Accession Number CUN/65/0823B/MC
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker Cunneen, William James
Place made Borneo: Sarawak
Date made 1965
Conflict Indonesian Confrontation, 1962-1966
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Armed with an L4A4 Bren gun and manning his position reinforced with sandbags and barbed wire, during a practice alert at his forward company base, is 38143 Private (Pte) Peter Sexton, of Howling, NSW, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). Pte Sexton later served in South Vietnam with 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) between 1967 and 1968.

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