Cameron, Stuart Douglas (Major, b.1947 - d.1993)

Collection relating to the United Nations Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group (UNIIMOG) service of Major Stuart Douglas Cameron, Tehran, 1989-1990.

Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of two United Nations identification cards, newspaper clippings, a magazine, cartoons, and documents associated with Cameron's service in Tehran as part of UNIIMOG from October 1989 to April 1990. The collection includes a newspaper clipping on the deployment of Cameron and 14 others as part of the third Australian contingent to UNIIMOG under Lieutenant Colonel Gary Stone, a copy of Australian Army Magazine from 1989 featuring an article on the third Australian contingent's service with UNIIMOG, a 13-page magazine cartoon comic entitled "UNMO Harald in UNIIMOG", and a letter from Cameron to his family dated March 1990. Cameron recounts his service with UNIIMOG, his experiences, the tensions between the Iraqis and Iranians, a period of leave to Turkey and visiting Gallipoli, and of the flight route he will take to get home. The collection also includes a newspaper clipping on Cameron and his time in Iran following his return to Australia.

Major Stuart Cameron retired from the Australian Army in September 1992 and joined Care Australia. He was sent to northern Iraq to assist with the Kurdish reintegration program. Cameron was shot and killed there on 7 January 1993.