The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Clearance Training Units (MCTU) to give courses in land mine identification, minefield marking and mine clearance to the local people. Mines and other explosives recovered by MCTU's were accumulated and periodically destroyed in safe areas like this.
A Claymore anti-personnel charge placed in the bottom of a crater that remained after a controlled explosion of recovered mines. After being rendered safe, mines and other recovered explosions were ta
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
A dummy detonating charge made of wood placed to the left of a land-mine during a training exercise. Australian sappers were attached to the Nations Training Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and were pos
An unknown New Zealand corporal squatting beside an land-mine he has just exposed by hand. Australian and New Zealand sappers were attached to the Nations Training Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and we
A Cambodian mine clearance trainee using hedge clippers to clear grass and expose a land-mine. Australian sappers attached to the United Nations Training Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) were posted to M
A pyramid shaped marker placed next to an exposed anti-personnel mine in a roped off area beside a country road. Australian sappers attached to the United Nations Training Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC
