KOREAN War veteran Max Hayes mightn’t have seen fighting during his time on the Korean peninsula, but he surely saw a lot through the camera lens.

Mr Hayes laid a wreath at the Remembrance Day service on November 11 in Bright in recognition of Australian soldiers involved with the Korean War, Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation.

The 91-year-old was a photographer with the Royal Australian Air Force around 1954, where he served at the Kimpo Air base, approximately 36 kilometres north east of Seoul.

His main responsibility was as a general photographer, he said, and this included taking aerial, identification and parade photos, as well as photos of plane crashes.

He recalled one instance at the American air base when hundreds of feet of aerial film had been photographed over the border in North Korea by the US soldiers, but no one knew how to use the dryer to process it, so he stepped in.

“They didn't know how to load it into the processing machine,’ he said.

“But I said ‘I’m well trained, I'll put it onto your machine’ and it went round and round and round and it came out.

“It was dry - nine inch wide film, 250 feet of it.

“That’s how I helped the Yanks on that day.”

Mr Hayes said he was at the air base during the armistice, but that didn’t mean it was completely safe.

“I can remember some shootouts during the night - saboteurs were trying to come into the base,” he said.

He said he began working as a photographer for the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary in 1959, and was there for 15 years until the nation achieved independence in 1975.

He said he was staggered by the size of the Remembrance Day service in Bright.

“It's a wonderful day for me, personally speaking,” he said.

The Bright resident currently lives in Hawthorn Village where he said he lives a simple life assisted by his two daughters.

“I'm 91, get a good pension from my air force days, so I'm quite happy,” he said.