Captain (CAPT) Shelli Forbes serving with the Australian Movement Control Unit as part of United ...

Accession Number P03654.061
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker Adler, Fred
Place made Somalia: Mogadishu
Date made 1993
Conflict Period 1990-1999
Somalia, 1992-1995
Copyright

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Description

Captain (CAPT) Shelli Forbes serving with the Australian Movement Control Unit as part of United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM 1) sitting in a United Nations (UN) vehicle outside the airport air controllers building. Forbes and her UN driver are wearing UN blue caps and she is holding a Steyr F88 rifle, the standard infantry weapon of the Australian Army. 1RAR served as part of the UN Unified Task Force (UNTAF) in Somalia.

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