Place | Middle East: Jordan, East Jerusalem |
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Accession Number | S04371 |
Collection type | Sound |
Measurement | 59 min 35 sec |
Object type | Actuality recording |
Physical description | audio cassette; maxell UDI 120; mono |
Maker |
Woodland, Colin Frederick John Skinner, Roy Edwin Woodland, Colin Frederick John |
Place made | Israel: Jerusalem |
Date made | 7 June 1967 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Period 1960-1969 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Israeli Defence Force attack on the Augusta Victoria feature, Jerusalem, as described by Military Observers Major Colin Woodland and Major Roy Skinner.
Major Colin Woodland and Major Roy Skinner as Military Observers with Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan - Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (HJK-I MAC), a part of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO) in Palestine, give a live description of the Israeli Defence Force attack on Jordanian military positions on the Augusta Victoria feature, Jerusalem, 7 June 1967 during the Six Day War.
The Commission's Headquarters (the MAC House) was in the area between the two armistice lines that ran through the city of Jerusalem. On the night of 5/6 June 1967 the area around the MAC House was in the centre of heavy fighting that saw the occupation of parts of East Jerusalem. All of its windows were blown out and it bore the pock marks of shrapnel. During a lull in the fighting on 6 June most of the officers had been moved into West Jerusalem pending reassignment. Majors Woodland and Skinner, both on the operations staff, remained on duty with a selected few other officers including the Chairman, Lieutenant Colonel Murray Stanaway MC of New Zealand. Through a small window in a disused attic-type room at the top of MAC House the two Australians had a close view of the build up to the attack and the capture of the feature by Israeli troops. The fighting by the Israeli Army to gain control of all of East Jerusalem and the entire West Bank continued.
Their recording of the event was not official and was never included in UN records. The private recording of the event was made for personal records and subsequently donated by Major Roy Skinner to the Australian War Memorial in 2008.
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Israeli Defence Force attack on the Augusta Victoria feature, Jerusalem, as described by Military Observers Major Colin Woodland and Major Roy Skinner.