Whittaker, Joanne Kathleen (Colonel)

Place Middle East: Iraq, Babylon
Accession Number PR03942
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement Extent: .5 cm; Wallet/s: 1
Object type Postcard
Maker Whittaker, Joanne Kathleen
Place made Iraq
Date made 2003
Access Open
Conflict Iraq, 2003-2013
Description

Collection relating to the Iraq War service of Captain (later Colonel) Joanne Kathleen Whittaker, Australian Army, Iraq, 2003.

Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of a postcard Whittaker sent from Iraq to her godmother, Senator Kay Patterson, in August 2003. Whittaker writes that, as part of her liaison work with the Coalition forces in Iraq, she has travelled to Babylon and is staying in one of the palaces formerly owned by Saddam Hussein.