These 21 photographs were taken at Bones Day, an annual sports competition between the Army Survey Regiment and the RAAF School of Radio at Bendigo in the 1970s, probably all in 1972 as LTCOL Don Ridge was the CO in 1972. The two units took turns each year to host the event. The day competition usually comprised basketball, cricket, cross country, golf, sailing, squash, softball, tennis, touch football, rifle shooting, tug-of-war and volleyball. The “big bone” trophy comprising a large bone from a beast housed inside a wooden framed glass case, was awarded to the winner of the day competition. The evening competition often included darts, carpet bowls, hookey, quoits and billiards/snooker. The “little bone” (a mounted chicken bone) was the trophy awarded to the winner of the evening competition (reportedly taken from his plate by the RAAF OC at the initial competition as consolation for Army losing the day competition, but winning the evening competition). The 3-hour bus trip for the visiting unit on their return was typically very raucous, with the drinking continuing. The history of the Bones Day competition is best described in the booklet titled - Bones of Contention Souvenir Program. 1965. Refer to Item 6267.These 21 photographs were taken at Bones Day, an annual sports competition between the Army Survey Regiment (ASR) and the RAAF School of Radio (SOR) at Bendigo in the 1970s, probably all in 1972 as LTCOL Don Ridge was the CO in 1972. The photographs were printed on photographic paper and are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. The black and white photographs were scanned at 300 dpi. .1) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, SOR Squash Team: All unidentified. .2) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR Squash Team: Back row L to R: John Bennett, Kevin Kennedy, unidentified, Brian Rogers. Front row L to R: unidentified, Irene Saunders. .3) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR Golf Team: Back row L to R: Ken Rich, Bob Coultard, unidentified (x2), Graeme Jeffers, unidentified. Front row L to R: Kevin (Chuck) Berry, Noel Sproles, Don Taylor, unidentified, Russ Larsen. .4) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, SOR Tug-of-War Team: All unidentified. .5) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR Tug-of-War Team: Back row L to R: Peter Saunders. Noel Morrison, Jim Cook, Roy Morgan, Ken Slater, Bob Rogister, Adrian Rynberk, Tony Ellis. Front row L to R: Tom Pattison, Bob Hayden, unidentified, Phil McGuire, Peter ‘Blue’ Blaskett. .6) - Photo, colour, 1970s, ASR Rugby Team: Back row L to R: unidentified (x2), Wally Herbst, Bob Hayden, Peter Mansell, unidentified. Centre row L to R: Col Darch, Chris Parkinson, unidentified (x2), unidentified (x2). Front row L to R: unidentified (x2), Kerry Gallager, unidentified (x2), Bob Williams. .7) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR Volleyball Team: Back row L to R: John Bullen, Eddie Jacobs, Bryan Taylor, unidentified, Tom Zentai, unidentified. Front row L to R: unidentified, John Winzar, Ken Slater, unidentified. .8) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR Rifle Shooting Team: Back row L to R: Tony Ellis, unidentified, John Waight, Ian ‘Lofty’ Turner. Front row L to R: Warren ‘Waldo’ Shirley, unidentified(x2), Paul (Ivan) Nozaic. .9) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, SOR Rifle Shooting Team: All unidentified. .10) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR Tennis Team: Back row L to R: unidentified (x2), Shirley Stephenson, unidentified, Ros Melsom. Front row L to R: Lynn Ireland, Desi Asaris, unidentified, Rita Asaris. .11) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR & SOR Basketball Teams: Back row L to R: Tom Pattison, Robert Melsom, remainder unidentified. Front row L to R: Russ Larsen, Chris McCloud, John Thomas, unidentified (x2) Col Minto, unidentified. .12) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR & SOR Volleyball Teams: Back row L to R: Roger Pearson, unidentified, Bill Tewson, unidentified, Bob Rogister, unidentified (x2), Greg Francis-Wright, unidentified. Front row L to R: unidentified (x3), Ken Slater, unidentified, John Bateman, unidentified, Kerry Gallagher. .13) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, SOR Cricket Team: All unidentified. .14) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR Cricket Team: Rear row, Mick Dempster, Peter Mansell, unidentified, Kevin (Chuck) Berry, unidentified, John Dean, Trevor Osbourne, unidentified, Warren Chadwick, Front row Geoff Murray, Tom Zentai, Chris Bolter, Bob Fidler, unidentified, Peter Barrett. .15) - Photo, black & white, 1970s, ASR Tennis Team: Back row L to R: Noel Morrison, Adrian Rynberk, unidentified, Chris Parkinson, Terry Bulley, unidentified. Front row L to R: Mick Flynn, unidentified, Ken Slater, unidentified (x2), Bob Rogister. .16) - Photo, black & white, 1972. Presentation of Big Bone trophy; L to R: unidentified, LtCol Don Ridge (CO). .17) - Photo, black & white, 1972. Presentation of Big Bone trophy; L to R: unidentified, LtCol Don Ridge (CO). .18) - Photo, black & white, 1972. Presentation of Bones Day trophies; L to R: unidentified, WO1 John Hogan, unidentified, LtCol Don Ridge (CO). .19) - Photo, black & white, 1972. Presentation of Bones Day trophies; L to R: unidentified, LtCol Don Ridge (CO). .20) - Photo, black & white, 1972. Presentation of Little Bone trophy; L to R: unidentified, LtCol Don Ridge (CO). .21) - Photo, black & white, 1972. Presentation of Little Bone trophy; L to R: LTCOL Don Ridge (CO), unidentified..10P annotated ‘BR ? ? Shirley ? Ros FR L to Right Lynn Ireland Desi ? Retia‘ on back of photo. .16P Bones Day 1972 - unk, LTCOL Don Ridge. .20P Bones Day undated. .21P Bones Day undated. 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