In a workshop at RNAS Nanga Gaat, home of 845 Naval Air Squadron in Sarawak

The interior of a workshop at RNAS Nanga Gaat, home of 845 Naval Air Squadron in Sarawak. Six men are engaged in conversation, five are seated and the one standing is holding an axe. Nanga Gaat is at the confluence of the Sungai Gaat and the Batang Baleh, Sarawak. Nanga Gaat was used as an advanced base for an infantry battalion as well as for the Fleet Air Arm during the Indonesian confrontation which ran from 20 January 1963 to 11 August 1966.

Object Details

ID: PM7774/21
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Date made: October 1964
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm