Warrant Officer Class 1 Bill Bowyer, Counter Intelligence Detachment attached to the 1st ...

Place Africa: Somalia, Baidoa
Accession Number P01735.510
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour
Physical description Colour
Maker Gittoes, George Noel
Place made Somalia: Baidoa
Date made 28 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

Warrant Officer Class 1 Bill Bowyer, Counter Intelligence Detachment attached to the 1st Battalion Group, serving with the Australian contingent to the Unified Task Force in Somalia (UNITAF), beside a makeshift washing machine built by Corporal Peter Chalker from a design by Corporal Chad Hughes, also of Support Company. Made from a cable reel, with an ammunition box welded on to form an opening, the machine is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial.