Rod Robertson with two local children at the forward operating base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Squadron at Nanga Gaat, Sarawak.
A three-quarter length portrait of Rod Robertson with local children 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 wearing shorts and is standing outside hutted accommodation constructed from wood tiles, woven bamboo panels, sewn bamboo screens and corrugated iron.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19553 |
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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 |
| People: | Robertson, Rod |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |