Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. August 1971. Letters from home are always welcome in the ...

Accession Number FOD/71/0447/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Ford, John Alfred
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province
Date made 1971
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. August 1971. Letters from home are always welcome in the jungles of Phuoc Tuy Province. During a brief stop, Corporal (Cpl) Phillip Sinclair of Chelsea, Vic, reads one of his letters. Cpl Sinclair is a member of the 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR), and was on a patrol and ambush operation in the north-west of the Province.