Sydney-based Australian comedian Jimbo performs a practice session to members of C Company, 2nd ...

Accession Number P04223.179
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative panorama
Maker Dupont, Stephen
Place made Pacific Islands: Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, Honiara
Date made 30 October 2003
Conflict Period 2000-2009
Solomon Islands (RAMSI), 2003-2013
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Source credit to Acquired through Australian War Memorial official commission 2003
Description

Sydney-based Australian comedian Jimbo performs a practice session to members of C Company, 2nd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR). The soldiers, deployed under Operation Anode, Australia’s military and policing contribution to the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), are at Camp RAMSI near Honiara. The next day Jimbo performed to 15,000 islanders at a concert organised to celebrate ‘One hundred days of RAMSI’.