DUTY FIRST PODCAST EPISODE SIX IS OUT NOW:
Subjects: The Big Peace – Somalia, Rwanda, East Timor
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After seven long years in Vietnam, the Regiment went through an unprecedented period of peace, however this was all about to change as the international peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda and East Timor in the 1990s.
Featured interviews:
General Sir Peter John Cosgrove, AK, CVO, MC – 9RAR, 1RAR
His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia – 1RAR, 5/7th
BRIG Pat Mcintosh AM, CSC (retd) – 2/4RAR
MAJGEN Stuart Smith AO, DSC (retd) – 1RAR
Episode cover image:
Somalia. 1993-01-20. Private Paul Ingram, 1RAR (1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment), of Balwyn, Vic, with supplies for food distribution to the village of Sahmandeera. He is serving with the Australian contingent to the Unified Task Force in Somalia (UNITAF). By Dex, T R courtesy of AWM.
Produced by Pivot Studios for the Department of Veterans Affairs and The Royal Australian Regiment Foundation
