T-shirt : Lieutenant Colonel R Parkin, Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Brown cotton T-shirt with a small transfer on the wearer's left breast. The transfer is circular with 'AUSTRALIAN MOUNTAINEERING CLUB QATAR' and 'ASNHQ-MEAO 2003' printed in white around a picture of a goat's head superimposed over a pair of crossed climbing axes. The back of the T-shirt bears a larger transfer in black, grey and white with a goat atop a mountain peak with a small sign on a post to the right of the goat indicating 'SPOT HEIGHT ELEVATION 103m'. In the background 'AUSTRALIAN MOUNTAINEERING CLUB QATAR' is printed in black around a white coloured ring. An Australian flag and staff has been fixed in the ground between this and the goat in front. 'ASNHQ-MEAO 2003' has been printed in black on the side of the goat and '2003 RJ YOUNG' down the goat's front right leg. There is a brown cotton tag on the inside of the collar with the maker's details embroidered in black. Behind this is a white cotton tag that has been printed with carer's instructions, underneath this is printed '100% COTTON', the size 'M' and 'MADE IN AUSTRALIA'.

Associated with Lieutenant Colonel Russell Parkin who served in Iraq in 2003. Parkin was born in Sydney on 20 January 1957. He enlisted in the Australian army on 8 June 1980. While in Iraq he served with Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) as the Senior Historian for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) History Team. The t-shirt was produced for the mountaineering club of Australian troops based in Qatar.