Historical information

This is a set of three photographs of a Commanding Officer’s (CO’s) Parade held at the Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo in circa 1977. The guest of honour was the City of Bendigo’s Lord Mayor Roy Francis ‘Dick’ Turner. He was the Lord Mayor of Bendigo on three occasions – 1965 to 1966, 1974 to 1975 and 1977 to 1978. The Army Survey Regiment’s key appointments at the time were LTCOL Bob Skitch, the Commanding Officer from 1976 to 1980 and WO1 Aub Harvey, the RSM of the unit from 1976 to 1982.

Physical description

This is a set of three photographs of a Commanding Officer’s (CO’s) Parade held at the Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo in circa 1977. 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, c1977. Air Survey Squadron L to R: unidentified (x2), Peter Warwick, Mick Dempster, Andy Wilson, unidentified, Greg Gilbert, remainder unidentified.
.2) - Photo, Black & white, c1977. Cartographic Squadron L to R: FLTLT Ron Aitken, CPL Alan Hawkins, unidentified, CPL Stuart Symonds, unidentified (x2), CPL Chris Edwards, SSGT Pat Lumsden, unidentified, PTE Tracey (Beckwith) Phillips, CPL Lynn Johnson, unidentified, CPL Steve Hansen, SGT Rowan Gillies, CAPT Simon Lemon, SGT Alan Toogood, unidentified (x2), CPL John Bennett, remainder unidentified.
.3) - Photo, Black & white, c1977. The Army Survey Regiment performs an ‘eyes left salute on the march as it marches past the Guest of Honor. L to R: unidentified, RSM WO1 Aub Harvey, and 2IC MAJ Peter Eddy. The Guest of Honour – City of Bendigo Lord Mayor Dick Turner receives the salute on the front steps of Fortuna Villa. CO LTCOL Bob Skitch standing behind him returns the salute.

Inscriptions & markings

.1P to .3P – There are no personnel identified.