Major (MAJ) John "Dutchy" Van Der Klooster (from the Active Standby Staff Group), an embedded ...

Major (MAJ) John "Dutchy" Van Der Klooster (from the Active Standby Staff Group), an embedded officer who came to Security Detachment (SECDET) to complete an oral history interview with an officer from the Australian War Memorial. One of a series of photographs taken in the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) by Mal Booth, Head of the Australian War Memorial's Research Centre, as part of the Memorial's Curators in the Field program. This program continues the Memorial's tradition of documenting Australia's experience of war, through observing the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and collecting records, photographs, oral histories and objects for the Memorial's National Collection.