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Accident victim
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a legless man, a mine victim with a child, who lived under an Army hut in Cambodia. The man lost his legs to a mine when he was a soldier. His body is covered in large circles, created from su...ART90122
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A plea for peacekeepers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts three unidentified Palestinian elders engaged in conversation and negotiations with Major Rik Moddeman, an Australian serving with UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation), a peac...ART90364
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A plea for peace keepers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
A plea for peace keepers depicts Major Rik Modderman engaged in conversation and negotiations with Palestinian elders in Israel. Major Modderman is dressed in the uniform and blue beret of a United Na...ART91481
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Army birthday touch football match
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Crowd of figures playing football on a US Helipad. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94847
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Australian signaller with MINURSO meeting Polisario commander
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Portrait of two men, one in uniform, shaking hands. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94844
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Bandits
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts three Somali men seated on the ground, with their hands tied behind their backs. One of the men is blindfolded, while one other has his face covered completely. They are surrounded by three st...ART90110
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Blinding lesson
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a young Somali boy, Mohamad, attacking another young boy with a tin opener from a ration pack, by thrusting the tin opener into one of his eyes. Gittoes noted of this work; '...Mohamad appear...ART90108
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Calling In
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Four Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers with an American Special Forces. The American, wearing a baseball cap, uses a radio to call in airstrikes. Gittoes' notes of this work include: 'Explosions were ...ART91935
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Captain Carol Vaughan-Evans
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Captain Carol Vaughan Evans attending to a wounded Rwandian. She was one of the medical team of 300 personnel supporting the 7000 strong international force, UNAMIR II, as part of AUSMED, the ...ART90439
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Death and the boy
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a young orphan boy standing beside a skeleton and in front of a pile of skulls. Gittoes wrote of this work; 'This killing fields monument is one of those erected by the victorious Vietnamese, ...ART90117
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Female body search - the problem of gender
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Corporal Julie Baranowski, Australian Military Police, involved in a body search for hidden weapons on a Somali woman. Gittoes' notes; '...Julie was requested to search the women. The Marines ...ART90105
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Flying with Regie, Western Sahara 1994
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
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...ART94600
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Fountainhead
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
The right of the work features New York skyscraper architecture, including the Empire State Building. A scene from Baghdad is on the left side, with the watertower being the main feature. The sky abov...ART29719
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Grain distribution
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Study of a soldier surrounded by women waiting in queues for grain rations. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94851
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Harvest and crop
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Two Somali men haggling with another two men weilding knives over the skull of a fellow Somali.ART90106
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Henna
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
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...ART90367
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Hounds
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
Three dogs tearing apart an oil covered seabird. Gittoes wrote of this work: 'Hounds refers to the old symbol the dogs of war. The combatants in this conflict, symbolised by the dogs, are not tearing ...ART29720
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Khats
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts the artist on the right, wearing a pair of Night Vision goggles while on patrol with Australian peacekeepers, Delta Company, in Baidoa, Somalia. On the left is an elderly Somalian man chewing ...ART90101
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Lieutenant General John Sanderson
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Portrait of Lieutenant General John Sanderson AC wearing a blue beret, in front of rows of skulls behind a wooden lattice. Sanderson (born 1940) was appointed military commander of the United Nations ...ART90953
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Loading ballot boxes
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a member of the Cambodian People's Armed Force and a Malaysian United Nations officer loading a full ballot box into an Australian Black Hawk helicopter. Gittoes documented the elections while...ART90112
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Loading tracers, Battembang
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Private Nigel Ellerton, RAR, 1st Battalion, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) loading tracers for rifles (bullets used to assist in aiming), while seated on the floor of a tent, su...ART90111
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Macka McLean, signaller
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a portrait of Macka McLean, a signaller with the Australian peacekeepers, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) in Cambodia in 1993. He is depicted surrounded by the signalling and com...ART90116
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Masood
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
This drawing was completed in the town of Gulbahar, 89kms from Kabul. It depicts a young Afghan man, Iqbar, seated in front of a shop selling videos and soft porn magazines. To the right of him is t...ART91938
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Mass grave
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a number of soldiers squatting at the edge of a pit, used as a mass grave, during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.ART90437
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Mirow and Awliya
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a Somalian woman, Mirow, carrying her six-year-old granddaughter, Awliya to a remote feeding station run by the CRS [Catholic Relief] at Makuboy, Somalia. Behind the woman and child are extens...ART90102
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Morning after all night patrol
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a number of peacekeepers sitting on the ground, with three Armoured Personnel Carriers in the background, cleaning their weapons, checking equipment, grooming, shaving and drinking. The men re...ART90100
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Mother and child
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
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...ART29721
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Mother and son Bethlehem Hospital
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
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...ART90369
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New boots and uniforms for Somali civil authority police
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Scene of men in uniform handing out boots to a line of figures. Two men with cameras are filming and taking pictures of the event. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program...ART94849
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Nigel loading tracers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Private Nigel Ellerton, RAR, 1st Battalion, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) loading tracers for rifles (bullets used to assist in aiming), while seated on a matress on the floor ...ART90115
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Night sorting of mail at headquarters Mogadishu
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Scene of men and women in uniform sifting through mail bags. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94848
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Nugget
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a Cambodian man squatting to clean a pair of Australian Army boots. Of this work, Gittoes' notes; 'Earlier tonight I came into my room and found a Cambodian man and his little son cleaning hal...ART90118
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Oil slick
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Studio One: Print making workshop
A seabird covered in oil, with burning oil rigs in the background. Gittoes wrote: 'This image was a response to the television footage of the environmental damage when Iraq allowed oil to spill into t...ART29722
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Ordnance, Somalia 1993
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
This drawing depicts a Somali women on her hands and knees on stoney ground wearing a head scarf. She is collecting firewood right next to unexploded ordnance which are to be detonated by Australian s...ART94599
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Out of the shitter into...
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a man pulled out of a latrine he had crawled into during the genocide in Rwanda in 1995. He is depicted lying on the ground in a paralysed manner. Of this work Gittoes' noted; This morning the...ART90440
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Pale Rider 3
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a member of the American Special Forces riding a horse at a buzkashi game. Buzkashi is a violent equestrian game, in which teams of riders on horseback contest to place a headless calf in one ...ART91937
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Pass
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
A young Mujahideen boy holding a rifle, with a Soviet tank on the top of his head. Behind him is a snow covered landscape and a tunnel. Beside him are a number of green flags in the snow, indicating g...ART91940
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Paul Stanton at Kibeho, April 1995, Rwanda
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
George Gittoes is an Australian artist who is best known for his work as a painter, printmaker and photojournalist. For over three decades his paintings, drawings and films have commented on internati...ART94376
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Peacekeeping Cambodia
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Soldier showing respect at Bayon, Cambodia. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2013ART94843
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Portrait of Jonathan Church
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
This posthumous portrait was painted by artist George Gittoes in 2017. The composition is inspired by the artist's now iconic photograph of Trooper (Tpr) Jonathan (Jon) Church carrying an injured Rwan...AWM2017.1339.1
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Road to CT3
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a number of Australian peacekeepers in an open truck driving along the road to CT3 in Cambodia. They are passing an open truck full of Khmer soldiers with a car in front of them. On the bonnet...ART90113
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Sergeant Jodie Clark
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Australian peacekeeper Sergeant Jodie Clark supervises preparations for the unloading of a train at Battambang in Cambodia. The train's cargo of pickets and barbed wire helped secure an airport during...ART90114
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Shiny new blade
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
George Gittoes made this picture of two young men in South Lebanon two days after road bombs killed eight pro-Israeli Lebanese Officers and wounded 14 people. One of the young men brandishes a knife p...ART94601
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Six of diamonds
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a young Rwandan boy, Luke, dressed in several layers of found clothes, dealing cards.ART90438
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Talismans
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts an Australian peacekeeping soldier in uniform with a rifle resting on his lap. He is seated in front of a goldsmith's shop at Sisiphon, Cambodia, and holds a gold talisman of a Styer rifle. St...ART90120
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The cardboard bar
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts an Australian peacekeeping soldier resting on the ledge of a bar made from cardboard beer boxes, selling alcohol and soft drinks. The bar is plastered with posters and pin up images. The 'Car...ART90119
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The farewell
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts the turbaned head of an elderly Saharawi goat shepherd farewelling his son, also wearing a turban, who is a new recruit to the Polisario in Western Sahara. The Polisario are the army of Wester...ART90365
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The guilty one
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Australian UN soldiers escort a woman and her child away from a dangerous confrontation with Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) soldiers. The RPA insisted she was guilty of supporting the Hut...ART90436
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The helicopter features but no room for Australian soldiers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Woman with child on her hip observing a helicopter, in the background two soldiers carry a box. George Gittoes was in Cambodia from 18 May to 3 July 1993. This work has most likely been created in si...ART94850
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The husks
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a young emaciated Somali girl, Harassin, standing with arms outstretched in an empty field of plant stalks from a harvested crop. Gittoes' noted of this work; 'Everywhere I go in Somali, there...ART90107