Korea 1954-1956
1 RAR returned to Korea for its second tour of duty on 31 March1954, and continued to serve there untill 26 March 1956, when the last Infantry troops were withdrawn. The CO was LT-Col NAM Nicholls and the RSM was WO1 P. English.
Korea. 28 May 1952. Digging of positions in Korea is not easy going. Here Sergeant W. (Ding) Bell of Warialda, NSW, puts a detonator into some plastic explosive with which he will blast out some obstinate rock in a position being prepared for a weapon pit by the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR).
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Infantrymen of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) move along an ice covered valley during a battle exercise near the Korean truce line. Korea is now in the depths of winter, and temperatures are dropping to as much as 40 degrees below freezing point. This is the second winter that 1RAR has spent on the truce line on its present tour of duty in Korea
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A burial party from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), is participating in Operation Glory at the United Nations Military Cemetery, Pusan, Korea. The bodies of Australian and British servicemen killed during the Korean War, were handed over by the North Koreans, under the exchange of war dead scheme. Among those re-interred on this occasion is the body of the late 237504 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hercules Green, ex Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). Here a wreath has been placed on the cross indicating the grave of 4400541 Private Alan Christopher Redfern, of the 3RAR, who was killed in action on 17 April 1952.
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Unidentified soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), rally around to move the granite name stone, ‘Gallipoli’, which marks the site of their Battalion Headquarters on the Korean truce line. 1RAR is about to leave for home, and the stone will be taken back to Australia. AWM MELJ1300
Three members of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) gather in a dugout in Korea after a patrol. They are, left to right : 2400620 Corporal (Cpl) Ronald McCrindle, 2400645 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) David McCarthy and 237657 Lieutenant (Lt) Peter Cliff. 1RAR have been patrolling in the Songgok area, east of the Samichon River in Korea. On the night of 13-14 September the patrol encountered 20 Chinese near the bank of a creek. During the ensuing fight L Cpl McCarthy pursued the Chinese towards their own lines. On his way back to join his men he captured a Chinese soldier, the first prisoner of war (POW) to be taken by 1RAR. L Cpl McCarthy was awarded the Military Medal (MM) for his actions. Cpl McCrindle was also awarded the MM for his courage on 1RAR patrols. Lt Cliff was posthumously awarded a Mentioned in Despatches (MID) after being killed in action on the night of 21-22 September while leading another patrol.
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Pusan, Korea. 31 March 1954. There is a strong sprinkling of Korean veterans amongst the newly arrived 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), in Korea relieving 2RAR. Sergeant J. (Mac) McNulty MM of Norman Park, Qld, seen here aboard the SS New Australia waiting for the word to move ashore, is one of the veterans. He won his Military Medal as a Platoon Sergeant with B Company during a raid on enemy lines (codenamed operation Fauna) at Hill 355 in December 1952. McNulty, who had previously served with 8th Royal Tank Regiment was born in Lancashire England and possibly one of the more than one hundred British men recruited into the RAR as part of K Force in 1950.
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