I never swore allegiance to the Queen with the Rhodesian Army or the Royal Air Force. I wasn't legally employed by the RAF for the first ten years. I had signed on at the Air Attache's office in Salisbury, Rhodesia, on the DC (B) scheme on about the 4th April 1960. They, and I, did not know that this scheme has been replaced by the DEC (B) scheme on the 1st April 1960. I found this out when I tried to exercise what I thought was, my 5 Year option so BOAC and Cathy Pacific missed out on a captain.
In the end I ended up on a PC and left at 38.