Remembering Vietnam – 50 years after the Battle of Long Tan | Photographs from the MRAG Collection

June 25 2016 — September 4 2016

Sapper Terry Lorraine outside accommodation tent after transport patrol, 17 construction unit, Nui Dat, 1968 (Image courtesy James Lorraine, photograph reproduced by Neville Foster, 1997) Silver gelatin print 30.3 x 40.5cm
Sapper Terry Lorraine outside accommodation tent after transport patrol, 17 construction unit, Nui Dat, 1968 (Image courtesy James Lorraine, photograph reproduced by Neville Foster, 1997),Silver gelatin print, 30.3 x 40.5cm

In August 1966 Australian soldiers engaged in one of Australia’s heaviest actions of the Vietnam War – the Battle of Long Tan.

On the 50th anniversary of this savage battle between Australian soldiers and the Viet Cong, MRAG remembers the people who took part in the Vietnam War with this exhibition of photographs from the MRAG Collection.