Shadow Box - Sgt Doug Newton's memorabilia regarding his United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) II tour in Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula. The Box contains the UNEF medal and badges with a MacKenzie tartan background. Sgt Newton served in the Seaforths from 1973 - 2010 The first United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was established by United Nations General Assembly to secure an end to the Suez Crisis on November 7, 1956. The force was developed in large measure as a result of efforts by UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning (1957) proposal and effort from Canadian Minister of External Affairs Lester B. Pearson. The General Assembly had approved a plan submitted by the Secretary-General which envisaged the deployment of UNEF on both sides of the armistice line. The Second United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF II) deployed from October 1973 to July 1979. The second United Nations Emergency Forces (UNEF II) was established by United Nations General Assembly, in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 340 (1973), to supervise the ceasefire between Egyptian and Israeli forces at the end of Yom Kippur (October) War and following of the agreement of 18 January 1974 and 4 September 1975, to supervise the redeployment of Egyptian and Israeli forces and to man and control the buffer zones established under those agreements.