Moments of Service: Images from Canada’s Mission in the Balkans

LdSH(RC) C/S 23, Visoko 1994, Frank Conanako photo

SFOR, Roto 13, NCE, Peter Crow Photo

Castle in Velika Kladuša. Western Bosnia-Herzegovina. Raffaello Photo

M113 APC, 61E, 2RCR Recce Pl, 1992-93, 76 bullet holes/dents. It later became the Recce Pl Comd vehicle, 69

Op Panorama Forwards Air Controller 93/94 roto 1, Michael J. Pretty photo

UNPROFOR, PPCLI, C Company, Croatia, 1993

Camp Maple Leaf, Zagon Bosnia, 1996. Leopard C1

Rob Claypool, UNPROFOR, R22eR, Sarajevo airport, 1992, Sgt. Coloumbe

TUA, UNPROFOR, R22eR, Sarajevo, 1992, Sgt. Coloumbe

UNPROFOR, R22eR, Sarajevo, 1992, Sgt. Coloumbe

CAF C-130 Hercules, Sarajevo airport, with R22eR M113 guarding, c1992

UNPROFOR, winter of 92-93. Second battalion RCR, Chris Deveaux photo

UNMIK, CIMIC, NATO, Klina-Kosov, 2000

PPCLI, B Coy 5 Pl - Permanent Vehicle Checkpoint

Remembrance Day, VK, 11 Nov 2003, Paul Hale

2 PPCLI group photo, Croatia, 1993

Canadian Military Engineers clearing landmines during peace support efforts in the Balkans

A UN soldier surveys the damage in the town of Medak after the battle in September 1993. Every house and hut was blown up and many of the ruins were left booby-trapped by Croatian troops. [MASTER CORPORAL PHIL TOBICOE/PPCLI ARCHIVES/20.39.06]

UN peacekeepers display confiscated weapons in Croatia in August 1993. [MASTER CORPORAL PHIL TOBICOE/PPCLI ARCHIVES]

Residents of Sarajevo take cover from sniper fire behind an UN armoured vehicle in 1993. [DANILO KRSTANOVIC/REUTERS/ALAMY/2D1GJ50]

Canadian Armed Forces military policemen preparing for patrols in Zgon, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (DND Photo: Master Corporal Bernie Tessier)

A CH-146 Griffon Helicopter from 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, CFB Edmonton, flies a mission carrying the Quick Reaction Force past the ruins of an old castle near Velika Kladusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (DND Photo)

A Canadian UN M113 from N Coy 3 RCR, in Sarajevo, 1992, moving through “Sniper Alley (DND Photo).

An A Coy 1R22er soldier in a M113 at the Sarajevo airport manning a .50 Cal MG with a night sight (Veterans.GC.ca Photo).

Operation Harmony: Humanitarian aid convoy. Sgt Dave Kearley (seated) and Cpl Joe Le Goffic (standing) in Sarajevo (DND Photo).

Private Anthony Gruppuso of the Toronto Scottish Regiment takes the sunset watch, standing above the Camp Normandy main entrance in Tomislavgrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (DND Photo)

Two Canadian Signallers, Corporals Darrell Houle and Daniel Proulx, guarding the main gate of Camp Polom in Croatia. (DND/VAC Photo)

Field Surgical Team, Major Hillary Jaeger, Sergeant Danny Noyes and Corporal Phil Fewer, treat a mortar casualty prior to transport to Camp Visoko Hospital. (DND/VAC Photo)

Residents of Sarajevo take cover from sniper fire behind an UN armoured vehicle in 1993. [DANILO KRSTANOVIC/ REUTERS/ ALAMY/ 2D1GJ50]

Corporals Rob Serjeant (left) and Rob Majore (right) clear debris from the road near Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sergeant Pat Gear in the background supervises some work of the Drott excavator. (DND Photo)