Humble Pie!!
I shall defer to NutherA2 regarding the details of the stories I have related above, as his involvement was more 'immediate' than my recollections based on second hand information: humble pie duly consumed with the wheatie bangs!
O-D
PS We're drifting the Thread a bit from helios stories but probably no bad thing as the campaign was a model of how to get things right and followed the equally successful Malayan Emergency.