Members of the Australian Movement Control Unit serving in Somalia as part of the Unified Nations ...

Place Africa: Somalia, Mogadishu
Accession Number P01735.054
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker Gittoes, George Noel
Place made Somalia: Mogadishu
Date made 3 March 1993
Conflict Period 1990-1999
Somalia, 1992-1995
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Members of the Australian Movement Control Unit serving in Somalia as part of the Unified Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM 1). They are maintaining their physical fitness by exercising at an outdoor gym at the airport. Pictured second from left is Corporal Darren Smith, who was one of 18 soldiers killed in a training accident in Townsville on 12 June 1996, when two Blackhawk helicopters crashed.

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