Pocket Badges - UNTSO

UNTSO is one of the oldest missions and has its headquarters in Jerusalem.  The abbreviation stands for "United Nations Truce Supervisory Organisation".  Observers who are assigned to UNTSO have been and some cases still are based in a number of locations e.g. Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt.  Because of the variety of locations and in the absence of cloth badges a whole series of pocket badges were introduced to indicate where the wearer was serving.  

                           
United Nations Liasion Office Beriut Observer Group Golan United Nations Liasion Office GAZA
   
                           
Observer Group Jerusalem Observer Group Lebanon Observer Group Lebanon Team X-Ray
 
                                         
Military Observer (General Type)
   

 

 

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 Page Updated : Saturday, 29 September 2007