The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the International Force East Timor (INTERFET) service of 231680 Major Rodger D. Shanahan, A Field Battery, 3 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) Battle Group, 1999.
Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of two letters written in November 1999 by the local Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Commander in West Timor, offering to send internally displaced East Timorese back across the border.
Major Rodger Shanahan was given the first letter during a patrol to the river that marked the boundary with West Timor and arranged to meet the TNI commander the next day with Lieutenant Colonel Nick Welch, the commanding officer of 3RAR. They repatriated hundreds of people over the next few days.
At an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) checkpoint, Sapper Doyle, Australian Defence Force, and 'Bob', a low risk search dog, check a minibus for weapons and explosives. The bus is transporting East
Two generals of the Indonesian Army (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, or TNI) wait to leave East Timor in a lounge area at Comoro airport. The TNI received international criticism for failing to prevent th
Photographers and journalists from international news media organisations crowd round a waiting area at Comoro airport. They are covering a ceremony where Xanana Gusmao, leader of the FALINTIL resista
Dili, East Timor. 19 November 1999. A young Timorese girl, eating a piece of fruit, standing next to a monsoon drain in the International Force for East Timor (Interfet) compound.
Collection relating to the Operation Tanager / United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) service of 3810037 Private (later Lance Corporal) Shannon French, 6 Battalion, Royal Au
Informal portrait of New Zealand Police Officer, Sergeant Wayne Corbett, a member of the United Nations Mission East Timor (UNAMET), with local East Timorese children on an empty riverbed during a pat
