In Memoriam Coastal 28 Nov 1969

[Shack37]

For anyone old enough to remember, some photos of a small ceremony during a Sharjah det.

Some really old pruners out there may recognise faces.



http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa163/exshack37/RIPCoastal.jpg

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http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa163/exshack37/RIPCoastal1.jpg


http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa163/exshack37/th_RIPCoastal2.jpg (http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa163/exshack37/?action=view&current=RIPCoastal2.jpg)

[Dengue_Dude]

Try using Photobucket, then once uploaded from your computer, you copy the IMG link and paste it into your post - which then shows up in the post as the photograph.

Appreciate what you're trying to do.

Take care

DD

[Shackman]

Thanks for those 37 - I recognise a couple of (very young) faces but unfortunately the drone of 4 Griffons followed by years on rotary have addled the brain cells.

I think all we had at St Mawgan was a wake in the Falcon!

** Pertama **

[Shack37]

DD wrote,

Try using Photobucket, then once uploaded from your computer, you copy the IMG link and paste it into your post - which then shows up in the post as the photograph.



I was using photobucket and following instructions posted by BOAC which on earlier occasions have been successful but no luck this time and tried everything.......url, img etc and editing same several times.

per ardua ad photoposting:ugh:

[forget]

Make sure you don't have two 'http' in the photobucket URL prefix.

[scrimshanker]

I remember it well (vaguely !) There was a 3 shack fly-by followed by a pretty good PU. Dickie Wray (204 Flt Commander and Detcom) is at the fore in a couple of the pics

[alisoncc]

Not sure as to whether it's had changed much since I was there. Here's a photo of the Electronics Centre in 1966.

http://96thentrylocking.net/images/sharjahmec.jpg

Alison
PS. Tom Sheppard was the CO back then.
PPS. That was before they moved up the millions of bodies from Aden.

[Shack37]

Scrimshanker
Thanks, I was trying to remember Dickie's last name. I am also in one of the pictures and remember some ground crew names but not all. Aircrew names elude me at the moment.

alisoncc
Previous to the BK Det photos shown, I also visited Sharjah in 66/67 on detachment with 37 Sqn Shacks from Aden. T'was almost like a family atmosphere after the Khormaksar population. Happy days (nights) in the Khunja Club although if you knew the CO as Tom you're watering hole may have been elsewhere.

[Dundiggin']

I reckon the small guy leaning on the coffin 2nd on the right is probably Bill Burborough (an armourer). He became a Puma pilot and I did mucho flying with him. We did the Majunga Det together as airmen and then went together to Rhodesia on the Ceasefire Monitoring Force! :)

[fincastle84]

I was on the final det with 210 for 13 MONTHS in '70-'71. Seeing these photos makes me shudder. I will never understand why anyone in their right mind would want to have a vacation in Dubai!

[Shack37]

I was on the final det with 210 for 13 MONTHS in '70-'71. Seeing these photos makes me shudder. I will never understand why anyone in their right mind would want to have a vacation in Dubai!


Agreed, back then it was ok for a night out and a few beers but a holiday, then or now, nooooooooo.:ooh:

[Shack37]

Dundiggin

Thanks for the info. The guy to Dickie Wray's right is Dennis Marshall, engine fitter. I also did some trips to Majunga, first from Aden with 37 and a couple of times from BK. Not easy to pick out the coffin bearers as the photo is a bit dark.

[piggybank]

Maybe slightly off thread now. I was at Sharjah for 9 months in 1970. I was with the Army Air Corps, REME detached. We did plenty of moving of accommodation, at one time being right next to the small graveyard.

I do remember one burial, but I believe it was three SAS men killed in a "road accident" in Oman.

When RAF Sharjah closed what happened to the graves, was the graveyard moved or left there?

Years later I joined Worldwide Helicopters and was near the old base at Sharjah but never had a chance to travel in to have a look around.

[scrimshanker]

Shack37 Re: Aircrew names elude me at the moment.

To Dickie Wray's Left is Gordon Smith (wearing bow tie)
In the daytime pic of the coffin going in - on the extreme left of the pic is Ivan Childs wearing sunglasses

I'm told that the young fresh faced youth in the one with the gravestone is Bugsy Newall, who was possibly Ivan Child's co-pilot at the time

[Shack37]

scrimshanker

Thanks again and the person leading the cortege is F/Sgt George Barclay who was i/c ground crew on the det.