A Bren gun is not the softest of pillows, but Private Jock Stewart, of Glenn Innes, NSW, D ...

Accession Number HOB/56/0497/MC
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made Malaya: Perak
Date made c 1956
Conflict Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A Bren gun is not the softest of pillows, but Private Jock Stewart, of Glenn Innes, NSW, D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), is not fussy after five hours of jungle bashing. He is on an eight day ambush patrol searching for Communist terrorists in the jungle of Perak.

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