One of the Australian tents at Camp Smitty. There is a cartoon picture of Ettamogah Pub drawn on ...

One of the Australian tents at Camp Smitty. There is a cartoon picture of Ettamogah Pub drawn on the wooden door. Ettamogah is an Aboriginal word for 'place of good drink' and Ken Maynard originally drew the Ettamogah Pub in a series of cartoons for the Australasian Post magazines in the 1950s and 1960s. Since then most Australian bases have had a bar on them called the Ettamogah Pub. Camp Smitty was alcohol free for Australian soldiers. Camp Smitty was a multinational camp located approximately 7 kms from the town of As Samawah. The camp was set up by the Americans in early 2003 adjacent to an abandoned train depot, and was later named in honour of Lance Corporal Jonothan L Smith, a US Marine who was killed after his truck was hit with an improvised explosive device. The camp was occupied by Dutch troops between July 2003 and March 2005, when it was handed over to the British. Australian troops occupied the camp in April 2005 until it was closed in May 2006 and the AMTG was relocated to Dhi Qar Province.