Album 3 - 547 Signal Troop

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3-1.  
L-R  Eric Grace, Kev Lever and Frank Young.  Photo supplied by Kev Lever [1966]

  
3-2. 
L-R  Dick Schafer (Father of the Bride) and Laurie Duell (Bride) at the Wedding.  See 'The Unclassified History 547 Sig Tp in SVN' - Chapter 5 for story.   Photo supplied by Denis Stone [1968]

 
3-3.  Denis Stone.  Photo supplied by Denis Stone [1968]

 
3-4.  
L-R  Denis Stone and Dick Schafer.   Photo supplied by Denis Stone [1968]

    
3-5.  Denis Stone.  Photo supplied by Denis Stone [1968]

 
3-6.   547 Compound at Nui Dat - Looking West.  104 Sig Sqn Tech Maint on left side of road (and photo).  Photo supplied by Bob Hartley [1969]


3-7.  547 Compound Gate - Compound within the 104 Sig Sqn Area at Nui Dat.  Photo supplied by Rob Hill(104 Sig Sqn) [1968]

   
3-8.  Children at the Phuoc Le Cac Orphanage in Baria enjoying an outing in Saigon in Nov 1970. 
See 'The Unclassified History 547 Sig Tp in SVN' - Chapter
8 for story.   Photo from Unit History.


3-9. 161 Recce Cessna 180A fitted with ARDF equipment preparing for a mission at Nui Dat.  See the antenna pod behind the wheels in the up position.  Photo supplied by Bob Harltey [1969]

 
3-10.  161 Recce 180A - Type used by 547 Sig Tp to fly ARDF missions around Phuoc Tuy Province.  Photo supplied by Denis Hare (104 Sig Sqn)[1968]

 
3-11.   Cessna 180A A98-043 at Nui Dat after a ARDF Mission crashed landed in a twenty km north of Nui Dat with Pilot Lt Steve Tizzard and ARDF Operator Dick Schafer in Aug 1968. 
Both survived the crash.   Photo supplied by Denis Hare (104 Sig Sqn)[1968]

 
3-12.  161 Recce Pilatus Porter preparing to take off from Nui Dat.  Photo supplied by Ron Estes (US Army)[1970]

 
3-13. Bugsey Harper in 1967.  Photo from Unit History.

 
3-14.  Bruce (Bilko) Fitzsimmons.  Photo supplied by Denis Stone [1968]


3-15.  
L-R  Brian Russel, Col Clee and Loffy Watson at the Latrine.  Photo from Unit History.


3-16.  
L-R Bill Irwin and Sammy Rodgers in 1968.  Photo from Unit History.


3-17. 
L-R Bill Irwin, Trevor Richards and Jim Rayner - Christmas 1966 at Nui Dat.  Photo from Unit History.


3-18.   Barry Wilson at work in Tech Maint in 1971.  Photo from Unit History.


3-19.  161 Recce Pilatus Porter at Nui Dat.  Photo supplied by Dennis Nicholson [1970]


3-20.  On finals for Luscombe Field, Nui Dat.  The Cell centre right of photo in front of Nui Dat Hill.  Photo supplied by Bob Elworthy [1971]

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