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Corporal J (Blue) T Mulby acting Platoon Sergeant Reconnaissance Platoon, taking a break from the stifling heat. Corporal Bob "Dogs" Kearney Reconnaissance Platoon and Corporal Russel Durrant the Mortar Fire Controller (MFC) playing up in the boozer. Sergeant John Lea-Smith Reconnaissance Platoon Sergeant.
Doctor Peter Lovell reading Flashback on the ice at Casey base Antarctica. Lieutenant Mick Deak MC (Vonberg) determined to win the Anzac Tug-o-War. This is a photo of Garry Davis who was a scout in 7 Pl C Coy 3 RAR with me in 1971, I was the Platoon Sergeant. On my left is Trevor "Taffy" Cheeseman. Trevor was my section 2IC in Recce Platoon 5 RAR in 1966, he was badly wounded by a grenade near the old French Villa at Binh Ba. He recovered back in Australia and returned to Vietnam to serve again with 5 RAR on the Battalions second tour. Standing alongside "Taff" is Turkish war veteran who laid a wreath at the Australian Memorial - Lone Pine and next to him is Fred Pryde who served in the 13th Field Regiment, Artillery at Buna during WW2. Garry Davis is wearing his own medals from Vietnam, his father's from WW2 and his grandfather's from WW1.
Chris Jennison on the left, John Blue Mulby Centre and Dogs on the right 2004.    
PsyOps pamphlet I picked up in the jungle in 1966. Home in the rubber at Nui Dat. "BRASSO" Our interpreter.

Glen "Moose" Benham. Takes a break. Children of Vietnamese soldiers based in the fortified villa at Bihn Ba. Blue Mulby in Recce Platoon Office.

Caesar with a mate. The "Flags" best known Aussie R.V. (rendezvous) in Vungars. Vietnamese family with their Ox cart. Possibly their most important possession.

Crossing the Equator, 1966. HMAS Sydney bound for Vietnam. Recce Platoon Xmas, Bihn Ba, 1966. Family of a Vietnamese soldier in fortified villa at Bihn Ba. (Note the married quarters).

Platoon Sergeant John Lea-Smith and I posing Hoa Long, 1967. Another famous R.V. Dave Wollner ensuring the V.C. don't slip the cordon at Hoa Long.

The poverty and misery of a country at war. Li'l Mac, Suave Harve, me, Skipper, a mate and Blue Mulby enjoying a few San Miguel's during R and C at Vung Tau. John Williams at Home between OP's 1966.

 

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