ALBUM 1 - 104 SIG SQN

1-1.  Maj Norm Munro, OC 104 Sig Sqn (Left) and WO2 Ron (Bluey) Still, SSM 104 Sig Sqn.  Photo supplied by Norm Munro.   [1968]

  
1-2.  L-R  Bob Parkyns, ?, Norm Munro, ?, Geoff Molineaux, Harry True, ?. Photo supplied by Norm Munro.  [1968]

 
1-3.  L-R  Blowie, Denis Hare and Bob Johnson.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare.[1968] 

Note:
Denis holding an AR (Automatic Rifle) L2A1. 104 Sig Sqn had a large number of the AR's for  detachment defence.

 
1-4.   Digging the new 104 CP late 1968. From Left, Ken Cox,?,?, Ross Horsfall,?, Richard Christiansen.  Photo supplied by Denis Hare.   [1968]

    
1-5.  New transport sign. From left, ?, Robert (Blue) Gilfillan, ?   Sign painted by Denis Hare in 1968.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare.  [1968]

Note: 
PMG hell drivers referenced us to the Postmaster General's Department (PMG) that maintain communications back home.  Garsite's rock was a dig at William (Bill) Garsite who hit a rock returning from one of his fresh ration runs to Vung Tau.  The Landrover sump was holed.  Bill was the unit Sergeant Cook and a fine drinker!

 
1-6.   Denis (Rabbit) Hare at FSPB Lion.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare.   [1968]

1-7.   From left, Peter McLean, Basil (Bas)  Williams, Denis (Rabbit) Hare and Alan (Thomo) Thomson.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare.  [1968]

   
1-8.  Stanley (Monty) Montefiore at Nui Dat.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare.   [1968]

1-9.  L-R Peter Blackman, Denis Hare and Doug Warden.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare.  [1968]

 
1-10.  Geoff Roberts.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare.  [1968]

 
1-11.  Paul Clancy.  Photo supplied by Denis Hare.   [1968]

 
1-12.   Peter Craddock.  Photo supplied by Denis Hare.    [1968]

 
1-13.  Robert Lowick.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare.   [1968]

 
1-14.   104 Sigs Standing-To at FSPB Lion.  Photo supplied by Ken Cox.  [1968]

1-15.   From left on Nui Dat Hill, Gordon Taylor, Ken Cox, Richard Christiansen and Geoff Morgan.  Photo  supplied by Ken Cox.
[March 1968]

1-16.   104 Radio Detachment that deployed with HQ1ATF Recce Party to FSPB Lion. Detachment has setup the RT-524/VRC Radio Set on the VHF Command Net as Callsign 87. L-R Graham Christie, ?,?  Photo  supplied by Ken Cox.  [2 Nov 1968]

Note:  large 24V wet cell batteries to power the Radio Set.

The au104 website family was setup to record the history of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals service in South Vietnam.   The site is privately funded, not an offical Australian Army website and the creation of 104 Signal Squadron Vietnam Veteran, Denis Hare (webmaster).

Websites in the au104 domain are:

104 Signal Squadron South Vietnam
(This website).

Pronto in South Vietnam (pronto.au104.org)
(Royal Australian Corps of Signals in South Vietnam)

1st Combat Signal Regiment (1csr.au104.org)
(Home of 104 Sig Sqn along with 105 Sig Sqn and HQ Sqn - the old HQ Company, 1ATF)

104 Sig Sqn Vietnam Veterans

Note:
All the photos on this page are from slides.  Time to check all them slides!  Denis Hare can scan slides for 104 Veterans!  

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