The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 mother held up his shirt which she had kept as a bloody souvenir. I could see where the bullets had torn through into his body. He had bullet wounds in his back, rump and kidney region. With great effort and a lot of pain, he rolled over and showed me the wounds'. Depicts a Palestinian mother holding bloodstained garments next to her wounded son at the Bethlehem Hospital, after the Hebron massacre. This drawing is the result of the Australian Army's sponsorship of Gittoes' travel to Western Sahara, Egypt, Israel, Jordon, Lebanon and Syria from January to March 1994 to cover peacekeeping activities and operations in these countries. Australian peacekeepers in Israel were involved in the UN Truce Supervision Organistaion (UNTSO) operation.
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
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,
Depicts Lance Corporal Wendy Andrews receiving a henna tatoo at the Polisario Refugee Camp in Algeria. The Polisario's guide, Habouha Soudany invited the artist and the peacekeepers to spend a night i
This drawing depicts the inside view of soldiers from the U.S. Special forces sitting in a Russian plane. Several soldiers in the crowded aircraft are identified as Corp Goodwin, American Ordnance Dem
A woman cradling a child on the shoreline, while bent rods surround her, the ghost of a dog leaps over her and United Nations ships sail in the Gulf . Gittoes wrote of this image: 'One of the most hea