" can you identify this digger "?
Photo supplied by
US KOREA VET PAUL WOLFGEHER - MISSOURI.
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3 RAR DMZ Gaurd soon after Armistace
came into effect
Photo supplied by: Alec Weaver
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2nd Battallion, Bendigo 1951
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A mortar crew of 3 RAR in action at Pakchon,
November 1950. AWM Photo
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17 Pounder Anti Tank Guns as used by
Infantry.
Supplied by RAA Assoc.
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British 25 Pounders used as Anti Tank Guns
(Note horizontal barrel, close combat)
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Rebuilding bridge
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What's in t
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10 Pl, 3RAR, Camp Casey, Korea 1953
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10 Pl members celebrate their return to hill 355
the next day February 1953
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Can you identify this picture or any of the
soldiers
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Can you identify this picture or any of the
soldiers
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Pte H.W "Slim" Madden reloads
his rifle while givingcovering fire for
"B" Coy's advance on a spur near Hill 614.
Captured in April, Madden was
posthumously awarded the George Cross
for his courage as a prisoner
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Keith Langdon and another soldier man a weapon
pit on the front line with rifle and bren gun to
survey the wintery landscape of
No-Man's- Land inDec 1951.
Frozen-solid ground snapped shovels, and ice
cemented sandbags together.
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Can you identify this picture or any of the
soldiers
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Blown bridge at Pakchon
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Members of 6 Pl "B" Coy, Korea 1951
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60mm Mortar Dennis Robinson 
3 RAR
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Can you identify this picture or the
soldier
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Bedford QL 3 TON GP
Could be Royal Artillery vehicle due to the
unit flash colours/number.
(Does anyone have any other ideas)
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First Mobile canteen to visit The Hook on day
after cease-fire is mobbed by men of Victoria's
own 2nd Bn, Royal Australian Regiment.
The canteen drove up to their bunkers.
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Chipyong-ni, Korea, February 1951. A Vickers
.303 machine-gun in action against the Chinese,
manned by Sergeant Chaperlin, 3 RAR
Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
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A Vickers gun crew lay down covering fire for 3rd
Battalion Royal Australian Regiment during the
assault on Hill 317, the battle of Maryang San.
Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
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2RAR troops in Hill 159 gun pit.
(Also note their beloved Owen 9mm Machine Carbine)
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Good friend to have up close - not to close though!!
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Aussie army band giving us Canadians a nice
send off on our rotation home after our13 month stint.
It was April 1954 and we were boarding the worst
train I have ever seen somewhere near Uijongbu
for our trip to Inchon to board our ship for home.
Picture supplied by Bob Bickle (Canadian Vet)
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C Company 3 RAR Pakchon 1950
chasing up fleeing North Koreans assisted
by a Sherman tank.
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Ken Watkins taken with three army mates
the R & R. in Kura,Japan.
3rd Batt.Regiment,9 Plattoon,section 7.
Does not remember names of other men.
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Ken after being flown to American
army base in Tokiyo
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Ken waiting on quayside to leave
for home to Australia.
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Group of soldiers belonging to the
3rd Batt.,platoon 9,section 7.
Going out on standing patrol up to hill 355.
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Group of soldiers,9 platoon at rest.
Again 3rd Reg,platoon 9,section 7.
Only ones can be remembered are Ali Khan
first on left in photo,sargeant (with paper in
hand,obvious!) 3rd soldier from right is
Chiller Moran, and sitting in tent in doorway is
Charlie Akehurst.
Ken Watkins is sitting in tent but only arm is visable.
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Ken's wife Joan Watkins supplied the
previous 5 photo's
KEN WATKINS DIED 26/2/06.
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On the Hill
On Leave
Dad at Puck I think
Dad in the trenches
Dad with his gun
Dad & my Uncle Ken on the left
1ST, 2ND 3RD Battalions Royal Australian Regiment in Korea, first and only time all three have been together long enough to have this historic parade.
