The Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 127 delivering stores at Kapit Bridge on the Baleh River, near Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.

A port side view, taken from abaft the beam, of the Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 127 coded B/B on the ground delivering stores at Kapit Bridge by the Baleh River near 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. Her tail boom is out of the picture and a few of the local populace are near the nose of the helicopter.

Object Details

ID: PCT19550
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