Sub-Lieutenant Derek Tracey outside the operations hut at the forward operating base of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.

A full length portrait of Sub-Lieutenant Derek Tracey standing outside the operations hut at the forward operating base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Nanga Gaat in the jungle of Sarawak, which operated from 19 August 1963 to 23 June 1965 during the Indonesian and Malaysian Confrontation. He is standing in front of the 845 Naval Air Squadron board which bears the name HMS Taijari and the legend R.N.A.S. Nanga Gaat. Tracey is wearing khaki shorts and flip-flops and has the Gaat Medallion hanging round his neck. This is a black plastic toilet seat on a piece of cord. He is holding the Gaat didgeridoo which comprises an axe handle with a wooden crosspiece to which metal bottle tops are fixed and hanging down. A vertical format image.

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ID:	PCT19542
Type:	Colour transparency
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Events:	Indonesian and Malaysian confrontation, 1963-1966
Date made:	October 1964
People:	Tracey, Derek
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements:	Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 38 mm x 35 mm

Sub-Lieutenant Derek Tracey outside the operations hut at the forward operating base of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.

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