'Operation Provide Comfort' Combined Task Force patch : Corporal J Booth, 2 Field Ambulance

Embroidered cloth patch, featuring the words 'Combined Task Force, Incirlik ab Turkey' in black over red, bordering a circle enclosing a map of the border region of Turkey, Iraq and Syria in green and cream, overlaid by the Turkish cresent and star in red, accompanied by the words 'Operation Provide Comfort'.

Related to the service of Corporal Julie Booth, a medic from 2 Field Ambulance who served with Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq and eastern Turkey in 1991. A total of 75 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel served in the operation in the aftermath of the First Gulf War. United Nations Resolution 688 authorised humanitarian assistance to Kurdish refugees in the Turkish/Iraq border region. Corporal Booth was one of 72 Army and 3 RAAF personnel (with expertise in medical, dental, engineering and logistics) who were deployed to the area as part of a larger force which eventually totalled 21,701 military personnel, with contributions from the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Canada, Portugal, Turkey and Belgium.