Duty First

The Big Peace

February 01, 2024 Season 1 Episode 6
Duty First
The Big Peace
Show Notes

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.

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