Two members of 4 Field Troop and a Somali interpreter on patrol with the 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment ...

Place Africa: Somalia, Buurhakaba
Accession Number P01916.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour
Physical description Colour
Maker Cottier, G
Place made Somalia
Date made 1993
Conflict Period 1990-1999
Somalia, 1992-1995
Copyright

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Description

Two members of 4 Field Troop and a Somali interpreter on patrol with the 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment in the Buurhakaba area. The interpreter and two soldiers are in jeep 48 800, with four armoured personnel carriers (APC) in the background. The soldiers in the rear Landrover are from 4th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, who provided the Civil Military Operations Team (CMOT) function for the 1st Battalion Group. They are serving with the Australian contingent to the Unified Task Force in Somalia (UNITAF).