My thanks to all contributors for fascinating stories and photos. I missed all these Arabian Nights, after a posting to somewhere (was it Salalah? Masirah?) was cancelled, so my ‘adventurous’ Overseas Tour had to be endured in the air-conditioned luxury of the O/Mess at Tengah.
Oh, what postings there were in those days! From my ATCO course at Shawbury, I remember one plt off went to El Adem. And several contemporaries enjoyed their time in assorted sandy places ... and Borneo. I feel a faint pang of guilt for not having served in any of those ‘less comfortable’ places. All I can claim is 4 months at Stanley in ‘83 and a couple of weeks in a tent up-country in Malaya in ‘69.