...ah yes, was only 18 at the time, but a lot of my School mates had their Fathers heading into harms way, so all those broadcasts were watched avidly in the TV Rooms at School.
Who could forget his completely deadpan delivery, which always started something like "Elements of the British Task Force have today.......etc".
Having been through that experience and then been to the FI in more recent times, I'm finding all this "25 years on" stuff quite fascinating.
Read the Vulcan book earlier this year aswell. What a tribute to British inventiveness and determination that is.