During the night the cook house of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), did ...

Accession Number HOBJ4447
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made Korea
Date made 14 July 1953
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

During the night the cook house of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), did not stand up to the rain and here the cooks prepare a meal of hard boiled eggs, bacon and potato in the light drizzle which the morning brought. A collapsed cook house is in the background. Identified (left to right) are: 3377 Private (Pte) Charles William Mangin, Australian Army Catering Corps (AACC) 2RAR; 13590 Pte Noel Henry Byquar, Royal Australian Infantry Corps (RAIC) 1RAR; 310635 Corporal Charles Cain, AACC 2RAR; 235027 Lieutenant Keith Henry Kirkland RAIC 2RAR; 310116 Corporal Francis Reginald 'Smudger' Smith, Mortar Platoon, Support Company 2RAR.