W3 Company - Photo History

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Terendak Days
[click on image to enlarge, then click again to get a close view] Terendak Camp Wellington Lines from Google Maps 2009 [Binning] showing facilities in the Lines in 1969 prior to W3 Coy departure for SVN

barracks, 1RNZIR Wellington Lines, Terendak Garrison, near Malacca West Malaysia [Young]

Terendak Other Ranks beach club [Young]

Terendak pool [Young]

on exercise prior to deploying [Young]

Back room in 'Terendak Bar', Bruce Young & Joe Mihinui doing justice to feed of pork bones & cabbage [Young]

probably exercising in Malaysia - dtae unknown [Gundersen]

Cameron Highlands cold weather deployment - CO arriving by helicopter on bottom field below barracks [Young]

Cameron Highlands - large tea plantation [Young]
Terendak rubbish contractor collecting from 1RNZIR OR Mess hall. The truck had minimal brakes, no 1st gear or starter motor and frequently stopped on slopes to get momentum to move. [Brooker]

Capt Jim Brown MC guard commander, VIP likely NZ High Commisioner to Malaysia [Torrance]
occasion unknown [Torrance]
funeral escort for Vietnam veteran [Torrance]
28 Bde tabloid sports day 1969 - Philip with camera, Lt Fisher, Kenyon, Newson, Cpl Preston, Lcpl Sampson, Cpl Joe, ?? [Torrance]
Brooker, Hatton [rear] Hansen, Spence [rear] McLeod, Hill [Taukiri]
from left: [rear] Ngatae, Kenyon, Jane, Robertson, Porter, Hill, Welsh [front] Wihapi, Perawiti, Gurnick [Welsh]
Asahan Range - claymore deployment & initiation training [Young]

Singapore - RAF Changi Air Movements terminal. Departure point for all flights to SVN. It has been suggested that most veterans returning from R&I leave would not have been sober enough to remember the building..! [Young]

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Nee Soon - Singapore 1970-71

photo taken in 1RNZIR transport hanger in Nee Soon mid-January 1971. Prime Minister Keith Holyoake speaking to soldiers after reviewing the W Company guard. Left rear is CO 1RNZIR (later CGS) Lt Col R Williams. [so at least one politician said 'thanks'] [Young]W Company Guard of Honour & 1RNZIR Band wait to welcome PM Holyoake [click to enlarge] [Young]

reverse view 1RNZIR lines Nee Soon - from opposite end of parade ground [Gundersen]

1RNZIR lines Nee Soon - from RP Sect entrance, Bn HQ on left [Gundersen]

picture the contrast from a month before - 1RNZIR band 'Beating Retreat' on the Nee Soon parade ground [Young]

Whisky Company retained its title on rejoining 1RNZIR, lost it a year or so later, and regained it again when RTNZ to Wellington Lines Linton [Gundersen]

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