The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Pair of bone cotton drill shorts with metal zipper and size adjustment straps on the waist. A pair of plastic bone buttons are above the fly. On the right rear pocket is a machine sewn rectangular logo for the 'King Gee' clothing company. Inside the rear waist of the object is hand written in faded black ink 'F4800711 STURTEVANT'.
These shorts were worn by Lieutenant Kristy Michelle Sturtevant, who was a Registered Nurse serving with the Nursing Corps of the Australian Army in Bougainville, as part of the Peace Monitoring Group (PMG) from April to August 1998. She served with the Bougainville Combined Health Element based at Loloho and was the Nursing Officer in charge of medium and low dependency unit. The PMG was deployed in on 1 May 1998, taking over from the New Zealand-led Truce Monitoring Group (TMG). The PMG comprised a mix of military and civilian personnel from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Vanuatu. Its headquarters were variously located at Arawa and Loloho in central Bougainville. Sturtevant later served in East Timor from September 1999 to February 2000 with the Field Surgery Team (FST) Heavy, which was part of the 1st Field Hospital based at Holsworthy Barracks in Sydney. During her time in East Timor, she was field promoted from lieutenant to captain, and her unit, the 1st Field Hospital changed its title to the 1st Health Support Battalion.
Pair of painted and heavily chipped metal framed goggles with smoked glass lenses. There is no side arms but a brown cotton tie acts to hold the goggles to the wearers head. The frames of the lenses a
Light brown crew necked short sleeved T-shirt with a printed design over the left breast and one on the right sleeve. The print over the left breast is in black ink and features a caricature of a smil
Novelty pair of Christmas antlers and Santa hat consisting of a flexible brown synthetic fur head band and attached reindeer antlers. Attached to the front of the reindeer antlers is a red and white
Baseball style cap with a dark green cotton crown and mustard visor. A circular INTERFET embroidered patch is on the front of the crown, with the initials FST and the white outline of a bat superimpos
Australian Military Forces INTERFET dark green cloth brassard. The brassard has an embroidered Australian flag badge at the top. Below this is a curved title embroidered in white with `INTERFET', abo
Yellow corduroy baseball style cap with embroidered Operation Bel Isi logo on the front and plastic size adjusting tab on the rear. The embroidered logo is a sky blue disc with a white peace dove carr
Bone short sleeve circle necked T-shirt. Over the left breast is a colour printed Australian and Singaporean flag crossed over. Above and below this is printed 'OP WARDEN / INTERFET FST / EAST TIMOR
Yellow cotton brassard featuring a screenprinted logo of the Peace Monitoring Group (PMG) below a woven cloth patch of the Australian flag. There are four pieces of velcro on the rear of the brassard
Yellow Peace Monitoring Group (PMG) flag featuring the circular blue, black, white and green printed logo of the PMG with a white dove carrying an olive branch over the island of Bougainville. Around
Yellow cotton interlock T-shirt with crew neck and printed blue, white, green and black logo on the left breast showing a blue circle, and green map of Bougainville with a white dove carrying an olive
Yellow cotton interlock T-shirt with crew neck and printed blue, white, green and black logo on the left breast showing a blue circle, and green map of Bougainville with a white dove carrying an olive
Yellow cotton brassard featuring a screenprinted logo of the Peace Monitoring Group (PMG) below a woven cloth patch of the Australian flag. There are four pieces of velcro on the rear of the brassard
Yellow Peace Monitoring Group (PMG) flag featuring the circular blue, black, white and green printed logo of the PMG with a white dove carrying an olive branch over the island of Bougainville. Around
Yellow cotton interlock T-shirt with crew neck and printed blue, white, green and black logo on the left breast showing a blue circle, and green map of Bougainville with a white dove carrying an olive
Yellow cotton interlock T-shirt with crew neck and printed blue, white, green and black logo on the left breast showing a blue circle, and green map of Bougainville with a white dove carrying an olive
Yellow corduroy baseball style cap with embroidered Operation Bel Isi logo on the front and plastic size adjusting tab on the rear. The embroidered logo is a sky blue disc with a white peace dove carr
Light brown crew necked short sleeved T-shirt with a printed design over the left breast and one on the right sleeve. The print over the left breast is in black ink and features a caricature of a smil