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Trooper Tom Dillon, 'B' Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, 6 RAR, keeps watch during an armored sweep west of Ap Rung La.
SP5 James Davis / The National Archives
Trooper Tom Dillon, 'B' Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, 6 RAR, keeps watch during an armored sweep west of Ap Rung La. Part of Operation Matilda, the action featured 44 armored vehicles and 270 men from both the Royal Australian Regiment and the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment - the largest ANZAC armored operation since World War II.

Photo taken: 15th – 26th January 1970
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