Monday, April 14, 2008

For the Record

Australians of the Imperial Camel Corps form up at Rafa, Egypt.
Picture: Frank Hurley, 26 January 1918



In the lead up to Anzac Day in this 90th year since the end of World War I NEWS.com.au and the Australian War Memorial open the archives to bring you extremely rare pictures from the nation's photo record.

Click here for even more picture galleries, videos and stories.


From/Link:

http://www.news.com.au/feature/ranked/1,,5016619,00.html



5th Australian Light Horse on alert in a section of the bridgehead at Transjordan, Palestine, April 1918.
Picture: Australian War Memorial


Squadrons of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade in formation at Gaza
Picture: Frank Hurley, February 1918


Infantry barge, HMAS Kanimbla, carrying 9th Battalion troops approaches the beach at Balikpapan, Borneo. Picture: Jack Hawtin, July 1, 1945


Soldier from the 7RAR runs with a loaded pack and his rifle readied near Fire Support Base (FSB) Anne, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam with a UH-1H "Huey" Iroquois helicopter landing in the distance.
Picture: Andrew Mattay, 1970-71




posted by 10 men at 2:43 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger 1735099 said...

Andy Mattay's picture shows Doug Gibbons, my platoon commander (5 Platoon B Coy 7 RAR) about to board a chopper during a company redployment our first operation in SVN in 1970. At that time I was a member of 6 section. We spent 9 weeks in the scrub on that operation.

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