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Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« on: March 14, 2013, 07:08:44 PM »
Hi, here's some snips from docs scanned at the AWM.



and if there's no room,

there's always the bus(Vung Tau bus stop map)



there's the lambretta



there's the taxi


there's the sulky (human legs? I dunno)


and these being from the RAAOC records, there's also a form to fill in for any complaints for Saigon Tea...



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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2013, 08:44:32 PM »
Here's a log regards "8 Ball" 114-325 from 26 Transport Coy 25jan71


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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 05:29:02 PM »


Where the above diggers are ordered to report at 0800 next morning to "SIB", is that Secco's Inhouse Brewery? Special Investigations Branch? Standing Infractions Board? Something to do with the Provos?

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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2013, 05:45:58 PM »
ross, do you have these as PDF's that you could send to webmaster@remlr.com ??
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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2013, 05:54:28 PM »


Where above the diggers are ordered to report at 0800 next morning to "SIB"... is that Secco's Inhouse Brewery? Special Investigations Branch? Standing Infractions Board? Something to do with the Provos?



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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2013, 06:54:21 PM »
ross, do you have these as PDF's that you could send to webmaster@remlr.com ??

Here's a shaft down the big pdf treasure mine that some research assistants showed me:

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/records/awm95/

Gigabytes of pdf. Months of reading. This current collection makes the ARN B.B.B. look like a pamphlet. Good ol' AWM.


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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2013, 07:29:58 PM »
Here's a curio. Dec 69 at 106 Fd Wshops. This should increase the market prices on ebay for old Lightburn wash machines...


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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2013, 10:47:35 PM »
Arty grunts testing Land Rover... well lets just say the lengthy ADE Trials didn't cover this scenario. In hindsight maybe there should have been a FSB Landy issued -using another Workshop tray variant.


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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2013, 11:32:45 PM »
I believe that we have photos of that very vehicle in vietnam, and post vietnam.  Therein answers that mystery!!
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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2013, 11:35:43 PM »
ross, do you have these as PDF's that you could send to webmaster@remlr.com ??

Here's a shaft down the big pdf treasure mine that some research assistants showed me:

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/records/awm95/

Gigabytes of pdf. Months of reading. This current collection makes the ARN B.B.B. look like a pamphlet. Good ol' AWM.

Seems I have some work to do there!!  FOr some time I have been recording seperately vehicles that served in vietnam so that I can easily extract a listing of them from the ARN lists.  I might need to establish that page of known veterans soon.  Maybe tomorrow if I have time and motivation.
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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2013, 11:51:46 PM »
Vietnam service lists, the holy grail for Series 2/2A restorers... well I have some google notes at this link below.

Any other helpers have any info to contribute??? as Dennis did, send an email or a PM please.
This file is a sorting tool. I'm adding all the known SVN photo evidences as well. I have entered some remlr known vehicles -pure optimism really. Adding more ASAP.

There are 2 yellow "HIT" marks so far which where we have a SVN evidence matching a REMLR known Landy. Or Acco.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AirmtN4GydAxdDBBM2lFVHBONHpWajJNd2tPTThEZmc&usp=sharing

Meanwhile, here's a treasure trove for RAEME interested. At the end of this AWM diary file is a complete Field Workshop establishment list of its vehicles, 106 Field WShop Vung Tau, 1971, done on the return to Ord stores. Right at the end of this file:
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/records/awm95/14/3/awm95-14-3-19.pdf

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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2013, 09:01:31 PM »
Hi Ross,

A lot of effort you're putting into this (the spread sheet in particular) and its all very much apprecited. a question though - whats going to happen with the information ? Is it going to be incorporated into the REMLR website ?

Have you spoken to Richard to see if the current database can have an additional sort function built in if entries have 'operation' colum added (eg Vietnam) ?

Just throwing a few thoughts out there ....

Cheers,

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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2013, 09:50:36 PM »
Hi Pete. Just had lovely day, very busy; 3 big loads to the tip. Under the house we found some old 12/1956 marked 40mm ammo box (with varnished rounds??) and what I was told was a army mechanics table with folding legs. Hardwood and weighty. Intersting design, maybe dates to the 50s or 60s as well. Got them home to put to use - seems they are family heirlooms now.

As to the new data, yes the master dbase should be able to handle it and grow with the .pdf refs and photo refs. There are trailer and Acco ARNs and a years work.

I remember someone from RAE Steele at Holsworthy saying they had missed the boat as a big skip went to the tip but that he had got the second load before it left or something. "We" lost a ton of vehicle records he said sadly. At the time I was looking for ARN records and anything to do with Series 2 and 2A in the 60s. That was 20 years back. Now look at the info coming in. Its a big win I think.

So far, in the data notes I have made this week, I think you can notice a definite repetitive pattern of Vietnam vehicles with no REMLR ownership then a batch of REMLR vehicles then another slab of Vietnam vehicles. One of the reasons has got to be the salt water factor mentioned in the other thread. http://remlr.com/forum/index.php?topic=266.0
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Re: Some Sth Vietnam snippets from documents.
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2013, 02:22:30 PM »
Just matched another ARN to docs. Thats 4 hits and we haven't really been forensic yet.

 Cookey should be happy after this weekends events at Corowa, but when he sees this, hope it makes his smile even bigger - one of his FFR Land-Rovers, 137333, was in Vietnam.
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