Not many of my slides from a detachment to the 66 Sqn Belvederes have survived. I was fairly newly arrived on AEF 390MU and still with white knees & issue KD sent to Kuching to help 66 Sqn catch up on modifications and a bit of Cat 2 Assist. There was rarely a day off but on one occasion the Sqn arranged a boat trip, ostensibly to a beach on the coast for b-b-q etc but the driver ran us aground on a sandbank in the middle of the river... Another trip was a lengthy one in the back of a 3-Tonner to a lake in an old quarry some distance up country - said to be the only swimmable fresh water lake due to bugs & bacteria being killed off by the arsenic content of the water. A week or so after the lake trip a rumour went around that the Indonesians had attacked a small base of Australian troops situated near the lake and that they had suffered casualties. No idea whether or not there was any truth in the rumour but it was a hot one at the time.
The photos are from my half-frame Olympus Pen-F, on Agfa slide-film. Apologies for the quality!
