Australian War Memorial Digitised Collections – Seeking copyright holders

22 October 2025

The Memorial’s Research Centre Digitised Collections team digitises archival collections at risk of deterioration. This process helps to preserve the original items and enables the selected collections to be accessed online in the future.

The Memorial is seeking permission from the current copyright holders to publish letters and other material created by the individuals listed below, held in collection PR00553 – Queanbeyan East Public School. If you are a copyright holder, a relation, or a descendant of persons named below, please contact the Memorial via email: Digitised.Collections@awm.gov.au.

Abudi Wali

In 1993, a Somalian child named Abudi Wali wrote a card addressed to an Australian Peacekeeper named “Scott”. At the time that this card was written, Abudi Wali was living in a Somalian orphanage. No other information is known about Abudi Wali.

The following Australian Peacekeeping officers and U.S. Marines while deployed to Somalia and Rwanda with the United Nations in 1993–94 sent letters to Australian students as part a school project:

Andrew Hall

Lieutenant Colonel Brian Millen

Major D N Niven

Warrant Officer John Knox

Glen De Witte

Peter Kelly

David Owen

Henry Le Coy Brereton

Graham Murrihy

Lance Corporal Brian Kjellin (US Marine)

Brett Trenery

Debbie Jantzen

Corporal Micheal Blaine

Captain Paul O’Brien

Robert Kennard

Glen Johnson

Lee Baumback

Corporal Fraser McKenzie

Norm Sweeney

Charlie

Squadron Leader Pete Ward

Les

Major Steven Dickens

Warrant Officer Norm Maher

David

Lieutenant Greg T Cartmill

Lieutenant Colonel Mark R Wheatley

Major Peter Nasveld

The following Australian Peacekeeping officers while deployed to East Timor with the United Nations Transitional Administration in 2001 sent letters to Australian students as part a school project:

Flight Lieutenant John Cotterell

Corporal Rodd Young

Alex MacDowell

Corporal Darren Magor

Andrew

Flight Lieutenant Tony Banner

Captain David Bradley

Major Dave Munro

Warrant Officer Steve Waters

Warrant Officer Kelvin Paterson

Tony

Colonel Stephen J Dunn