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Platoon commander Lieutenant Tony Loorparg poses with a slow loris, a small nocturnal mammal, at Nanga Mepi in Sarawak, Borneo, where B Company, 1 RNZIR Reserve Platoon was located during the Confrontation with Indonesia in 1965.
Information and images courtesy Tony Loorparg
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