Footage recorded by Brigadier Peter Clay while on deployment to Mozambique for his wife Christine and family members in Australia to explain what he was doing and to provide some insight into the environment.

In 1994 Major Peter Clay (now Brigadier retired) made a home movie while he was deployed to Mozambique to send to his wife Christine and other family members. In the peacekeeping mission ONUMOZ, Clay was the commander of the first Australian contingent, Operation Coracle, from August to December 1994. Their mission was to teach at the Mine Clearance Training Centre following the end of the country’s 17-year civil war. In his film, Clay sets the camera up on a sand bag as he introduces Mozambique and gives a brief history. It is 6.30 am on a day in November 1994, with the heat set to reach 45 degrees. At the training centre he shows us the de-miners going through their practical course revision. Red and green sticks mean there are mines present. Clay introduces the group of United Nation staff with whom he is working, and what their roles are. We are able to see what the civil war has done to this country and the difference ONUMOZ is making.