The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A member of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) uses a Telecom payphone at the Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) base at Battambang as a group of UNTAC soldiers gathers in the background. Cambodia's ruined telecommunication system had suffered from years of neglect - the only domestic network was in Phnom Penh city and international calls had to be made through an exchange in Moscow at the Phnom Penh Post Office where a six hour wait was normal. Through his company SOCONS, Stig Engstrom, (a Swedish aid worker married to Australian Lyndall McLean, then Phnom Penh deputy administrator for the Civil Administration Component (CIVADMIN) of UNTAC) secured the contract to establish an OTC network in Cambodia. Demand for more telecommunications channels was such that almost immediately after the system was established, Engstrom's company was obliged to increase capacity from seven to 18 to 36 channels.
On a street outside Cambodia's National Museum in Phnom Penh, a cyclo (also known as a trishaw) driver dozes in the heat whilst awaiting business as a group of foreigners (possibly non government agen
An informal portrait of Swedish former aid worker Stig Engstrom with his partner, Australian aid worker Lyndall McLean at their residence in Phnom Penh. Through his company SOCONS, Engstrom secured th
Two Cambodian civil servants on the second floor of the Constitutional Assembly building in Phnom Penh. The rebuilding of Cambodia's administration came under the juristriction of the Civil Administra
An informal portrait of Ung Huot, election campaign director for the National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia (FUNCINPEC) party, standing outside FUNCINPEC'
Behind the kitchen at the Australian headquarters at Phnom Penh, known to the Cambodians as 'Pteah Australii'. From April 1992 the Australian Force Communications Unit (FCU) contingent of the United N
Red Shield Defence Services (Salvation Army) Commissioner, Captain Clifford (Cliff) Randall treats of Australian biscuits to local children in a village in the Phnom Penh province. From April 1992 the
The replacement contingent of Australian United Nations (UN) peacekeepers arrives in Phnom Penh in preperation of the contingent soon to return home. Unidentified Australian peacekeepers disembark fro