P03258.027 Accession Number: P03258.027

Description

Senator Gareth Evans (left, in white shirt) speaks to Australian and New Zealand members of the Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) at their base at Battambang during his visit to Cambodia on 22-23 January 1993, designed to gauge the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)'s progress towards the cantonment and demobilisation of all Cambodian military forces before the May 1993 elections. Members of the media are also present. Assembled in front of a New Zealand flag, the identified military personnel are (left to right): McMillan; unidentified; Powell; unidentified; unidentified; Meagher; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; Baldwin. Evans remembers the Australian FCU team as being "tremendously impressive: alert, capable, resourceful, and with really good relationships with the local people."

Details

Accession Number
P03258.027
Maker
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Format: 35mm
Format: 4x5"
Support: Polyester
Date Made
1993
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor H Smith
Copyright
AWM copyright

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