The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Staff Sergeant D. B. Lark, a member of the New Zealand Army, makes use of a model made on the ground to teach a number of Cambodians how to give orders on the technique for clearing land mines. Staff Sergeant Lark was second-in-command of a Mine Clearance Training Unit (MCTU) based in Siem Reap, that formed part of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). MCTUs ran courses in mine identification, minefield marking and mine clearance for local people in many parts of Cambodia. Thousands of mines were laid throughout the country during the period of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Samrong district, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, 1993. Typical terrain in which land mines and minefields were laid in Cambodia in the time of the Khmer Rouge regime. As a demonstration, a mine is visi
Distinguished by their blue shirts, a group of qualified Cambodian deminers, together with their two New Zealand instructors, take a break from mine clearance operations. The New Zealanders, clad in j
A student carefully uncovers a dummy land mine on a road, as part of a course in mine clearance being conducted by a Mine Clearance Training Unit (MCTU) serving with the United Nations Transitional Au
Smoke rises from a controlled explosion of recovered mines (centre). Australian and New Zealand sappers were attached to the Nations Training Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and were posted to Mine Clea
Corporal ?, an Australian member of a Mine Clearance Training Unit (MCTU) attached to the United Nations Training Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) joking with a group of trainees. The MCTU's gave courses
A controlled explosion of mines and other explosives in a marked off area of countryside. Note the red warning sign in the right foreground and others along the edge of the clearing. Australian sapper
