"... we'd go out in a platoon of about 30 men and they would divide up into small patrols sometimes four or five men, sometimes seven or eight looking for enemy sign, trying to find an enemy base camp that we could then attack. That meant many hours of very tedious patrolling. Often also you'd lay in ambush for seven days or so and it took a lot of discipline to lie still for that time and just perhaps being relieved for part of the day to be able to cook a meal further back where the enemy couldn't smell you. So that took a lot of discipline and I think we refined a lot of our patrolling strengths for later in Borneo and in Vietnam."

LIEUTENANT CLAUDE DUCKER