AWM Collection Record: HOBJ4238

AWM image HOBJ4238

ID Number: HOBJ4238
Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made: Korea
Date made: May 1953
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: Wounded soldiers of D Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), are carried by flying fox to the Company Headquarters where the most serious cases are evacuated to waiting ambulance jeeps at the bottom of the hill. From there they are sent on to the Battalion Regimental Aid Post (RAP), and receive attention from the Medical Officer. Those less serious are carried through the connecting trench to the waiting jeeps on the other side of the hill. Here Private Jock Meek of Albany, WA, is sent down the hill in the flying fox.
Copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
Copyright holder: Copyright Expired
Related conflict: Korean War, 1950-1953

Last-Modified: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:07:46 GMT

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