The sickbay and an helicopter at the forward operating base of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.
The sickbay 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. The sickbay is a tented enclosure under an open sided, corrugated roofed building. The Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 116 coded N/B is in the background.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19545 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Events: | Indonesian and Malaysian confrontation, 1963-1966 |
| Date made: | October 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |