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 probably late November 1970. Prime Minister Keith Holyoake speaking to W3 Coy after reviewing the company on parade. Left rear is CO 1RNZIR (later CGS) Lt Col R Williams. [so at least one politician said 'thanks'] [Young]W3 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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