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E01202A - Australian infantry wounded at a First Aid Post near Zonnebeke Railway Station. There are two conflicting sets of identification supplied for this image. Identified: Private A W Moss, 9th FAB (1); Private V E Reid, 10th FAB (2); 2nd Corporal P Pratt, 10th FAB, or Staff Sergeant F W Gray 9th FAB (3); Private C R Costain 10th FAB or Private J Cooke, 9th FAB (4). The pillbox (left) is identified as 'Jury'. This is a Hurley composite based on image E01202. The clouds are from image E05430D. See E01202B for a similar composite image. See E01202K for position of those named in this caption.

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EKN/67/0130/VN - Members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), just north of the village of Phuoc Hai, beside the road leading to Dat Do. United States Army Iroquois helicopters are landing to take them back to Nui Dat after completion of Operation Ulmarra, the cordon and search by 7RAR of the village of Phuoc Hai. Operation Ulmarra was part of Operation Atherton, conducted by 2RAR/NZ (Anzac) (The Anzac Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment) and 7RAR. Left to right: Private (Pte) Peter Capp (kneeling); Pte Bob Fennell (crouching, facing camera); Corporal Bob Darcy (left of Fennell); Pte Neal Hasted (centre, front); Pte Ian Jury (centre, back, holding rifle); Pte Colin Barnett (front, right); Lance Corporal Stan Whitford (left of Barnett); the helicopter marshal at right is Pte John Raymond Gould, 7RAR. The United States Army Iroquois UH-1D helicopter is operated by 2 Platoon, 162nd Assault Helicopter Company, 11th Combat Aviation Battalion. (Having achieved almost the status of an icon, this image was chosen for, and is etched on, the Vietnam memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra, ACT, dedicated in October 1992) (A black and white version of this image held as COL/67/0781/VN)

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MSU/94/0048/28 - Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Michael Wertheimer, Commanding Officer of Tasmania's 10th Field Ambulance based in Hobart, serving with the Australian Medical Support Force in Rwanda as the General Surgeon, examines a young local child at Rwanda's largest displaced persons camp. He is watched by a group of local children. Colonel Wertheimer has spent six weeks in Rwanda as part of a specialist surgical detachment to the United Nations (UN) sponsored Australian Medical Support Force. He commanded an outposted treatment section in the south which provided critical humanitarian care through a clinic at the Kibeho camp which had more than 75 000 displaced persons, and provided care at a university hospital and village clinics. The treatment section also treated United Nations (UN) troops.

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Australian Soldiers in formation during the Second World War

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ART91105 - This work was painted in the studio after Rick Amor returned from East Timor, and now includes a late revision to the work. By eliminating a larger figure in the foreground, the work is designed to lead the eye into the landscape with the purpose of creating a certain mood. The first oddity of 'Rural destruction' is in its colour. A landscape of ashes under grey, unsettled skies sets a tone of jarring coldness in what should be a warm place. The trees retain no tree like qualities, other than forming irregular gashes in the landscape, perpendicular to the horizon. The dominating human presence, Australians from the 108th Field Battery, do not belong here. Their camouflage serves only to startle, to draw attention to the presence it should be hiding. Indeed the sense that much life perished here is evoked in this vision of the aftermath of the massacres that brought the troops in their wake. Amor's landscapes are 'haunted rather than peopled'. Here everyone faces away, each figure is alone and there is no contact between them as they too confront the landscape, the devastation of which is clearly a parallel for the destruction of human life. The desolate resounding damage to the human spirit, that was so wrenching for Australians, is an aspect of the East Timorese struggle that would have played a significant part in the intervention of the peacekeeping forces.

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POTSDAM, NEW GUINEA. 1944-09-05. THE CAMP OF HEADQUARTERS, 25TH INFANTRY BATTALION AMONG THE COCONUT PALMS ALONG THE BEACH.

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