Aust LRover Rec Rifle - SVN 1969.

[Bruce Gilbert]

Greetings

I am hoping someone can provide the background identity of the Australian Army Landrover 'gun buggy' photographed in South Vietnam. Most of the number plate (112 37X?) can be seen, as well as some unit ID plates.

The photo comes from a 35mm slide, and was taken by a sig. operator belonging to 104 Sig Sqn, between December 1968 and September 1969. It seems to have been taken at an ARVN post, judging by the SVN flag. I also recall his story that he was up a tower during an attack, and the sig. cables got entwined with a machine gun. This story and the pictures may not be related, but ...

He was sometimes sent in a team of one or two sigs, as a liaison sig with Aust and/or US and/or ARVN units.

I am hoping that someone might be able to ID the Landrover and the unit it belonged to. If that could be done, perhaps I could trace the unit's war diaries, in the hope of identifying a date and place of that operation.

The sig who took the photos died on the afternoon of the last day of the 20th century; he did not make the new millennium. He was a damn good bloke. RIP


Regards

Bruce Gilbert