The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a United Nations stone bunker, OP 54, in the Golan Heights, Israel. The bunker is set into the rocky landscape and terrain of this region . Gittoes travelled to Western Sahara, Egypt, Israel, Jordon, Lebanon and Syria from January to March 1994 to cover peacekeeping activities and operations in these countries. This work relates to Australian peacekeepers involved in UN Truce Supervision Operations (UNTSO).
Depicts an elderly Lebanese woman , wearing a head scarf, seated on a chair. Beside her is a crutch and she is seated against a crumbling stone wall, riddled with bullet holes. This drawing was execut
United Nations (UN) peacekeepers at the UN Observation post, OP 73, Golan Heights, looking towards Mt. Herman. The area depicted, looking towards the Israeli Early Warning Listening Stations, was one
In text accompanying the drawing, Gittoes notes; 'the whole ward [in the hospital] felt neglected by the world. No one had visited them to get their account of events...the boy was about 15; his mothe
Large mounted binoculars outside a United Nations (UN) Observation Post (OP) high above a valley. From here OGL (Observer Group Lebanon) observers observe and report violations of the Israel/Lebanon A
Interior of OGL (Observer Group Lebanon) Observation Post (OP) Ras, named after the village of Maroun a Ras. Inside is a desk and chair underneath a window looking out to the mountains. From OPs situa
A collapsed United Nations (UN) Observation Post (OP) 6-4B, A Company, damaged by an Israeli bomb attack. While one side of the building is in ruins, the other side stands intact. There were no seriou
