An unidentified group of soldiers from A Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment ...

Accession Number HOB/56/0259/MC
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made Malaya: Kedah
Date made January 1956
Conflict Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

An unidentified group of soldiers from A Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), washing and shaving by the side of a creek which runs through a rubber plantation. The men are cleaning up after spending two weeks in the jungle looking for Communist terrorists in Southern Kedah. Some Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbines can also be seen close by the soldiers.

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