Buurhakaba, Somalia. 1993-03-15. A member of `D' Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian ...

Place Africa: Somalia, Buurhakaba
Accession Number P01735.351
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker Gittoes, George Noel
Date made 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

Buurhakaba, Somalia. 1993-03-15. A member of `D' Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), serving with the Australian contingent to the Unified Task Force in Somalia (UNITAF), with a captured Somali bandit. The prisoner, who wears brightly patterned clothing, is having his wrists tied and has a cloth wrapped around his head as a blindfold.