Historical information
This is a set of 33 photographs of 4th Field Survey Squadron undergoing adventurous training held at unknown locations in South Australia, in 1994. It is also possible the training was in the Grampians region of Victoria. Off-road driver training and abseiling were key activities of this adventurous training as well as teamwork, leadership, and field craft. Elements from units of the Army Reserve may have participated in the training. See items 6561.31P, 6562.33P and 6564.28P for more photos taken during this training activity.
Physical description
This is a set of 33 photographs of 4th Field Survey Squadron personnel undergoing adventurous training held at unknown locations in South Australia in 1994. The colour photographs are on 35mm negative film and are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. The photographs were scanned at 96 dpi.
.1) - Photo, colour, 1994. Preparation. LCPL Mitch Oake.
.2) - Photo, colour, 1994. Preparation. SPR Chris Pearse.
.3) & .4) - Photo, colour, 1994. Preparation. Unidentified soldier.
.5) - Photo, colour, 1994. Preparation. SSGT Pat ‘Fuji’ Drover.
.6) - Photo, colour, 1994. Preparation. L to R: SGT Steve McGuiness, CPL Steve Wegener, CPL Dick Crawford, CPL Peter Ball, SPR Greg Richards.
.7) - Photo, colour, 1994. Preparation. L to R: CPL Peter Ball, SPR Greg Richards.
.8) to .10) - Photo, colour, 1994. Preparation. SSGT Lynn Johnson.
.11) - Photo, colour, 1994. Social activities. L to R: Unidentified (x8), SPR Chris Pearse, SSGT Lynn Johnson.
.12) - Photo, colour, 1994. Social activities. SGT Dave Longbottom.
.13) to .15) - Photo, colour, 1994. Social activities. Unidentified personnel.
.16) - Photo, colour, 1994. Social activities. L to R: SGT Dave Cook, WO2 Simon ‘Andy’ Capp, CAPT Rob Gray, SPR Chris Pearse, SPR Mark McInerney.
.17) to .19) - Photo, colour, 1994. Training area terrain.
.20) to .23) - Photo, colour, 1994. Driver training.
.24) - Photo, colour, 1994. Training area terrain.
.25) - Photo, colour, 1994. Abseiling. SSGT Pat ‘Fuji’ Drover.
.26) - Photo, colour, 1994. Abseiling. SGT Mark Donnelly.
.27) to .33)- Photo, colour, 1994. Abseiling. Unidentified soldier.
Inscriptions & markings
.1P to .33P – There are no personnel identified. ‘1994 ADV TRAINING’ annotated on negatives sleeve.