August 27, 2013 5:46 am •
![The Long Tan Cross – one of only two such crosses allowed in Vietnam
To commemorate the acts of bravery of 107 (Photo: The Piper’s Lament, dedication of the battlefield memorial, the Long Tan Cross, 18 August 1969, to those who died in the Battle of Long Tan, 18 August 1966. [AWM negative BEL/69/0556/VN]](http://www.laudafinem.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/screen-shot-2013-08-27-at-1-27-32-pm.png)
Lauda Finem remembers Long Tan
On 18 August 1966 some 47 years ago this month an Australian infantry rifle unit, D Company of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment [6RAR], comprising mainly very young Australian conscripts, entered a relatively small rubber plantation at Long Tan...