W3 Company - Photo History

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Nui Dat Lines  [also see 2Pl photos here]
W3 Admin HQ left end, CQMS store right end with separate entrance, officer tents to right, 1PL lines visible in rear. Not known who made archway [Young] volleyball court/parade ground to left of entrance, large tent possibly officers/SNCO mess [Young]
main entrance W3 lines - Coy Admin HQ in 1st building parade ground / volleyball court
typical tent lines, x4 people to tent, iron walls contained sandbags or dirt to protect against ground detonating explosives, tent fly overhead for weather protection [Young] Spt Coy canteen opposite W3 main entrance - known locally as 'Stagger Inn'. It was the rear of this building that received a faulty mortar flare bomb through the roof missing the barman but destroying large stocks of alcohol [Young]
1Pl lines - the tents had electricity but not much else.. Support Coy canteen opposite W3 entrance
now you see it - typical tent before removal, had probably served all three W Coy [Young] now you don't [see it..] [Young]
W3 were not replaced & dismantled their Nui Dat lines as part of their withdrawal
a lot of missing kit, ammunition & other stories were unearthed during the dismantling of the wooden floors [Young] [Young]
tent lines during a monsoon downpour - photo nicked off the NZ Vets Net [Isbister] 2Pl lines in Nui Dat [Rowsell]

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click this link for aerial photos of Nui Dat

see picture entitled '1ATF Aerial View Circa 1971'