This last Painter & Doper, that was demobbed from Akrotiri.
This could have happened to me, a long time ago.
But if I had chosen to take demob in Cyprus, I would have been responsible for my costs of getting my wife and I, and our kit, back to UK.
Being on an engagement of over 9 years, I had the option of spending my last 6 month at the 'station of my choice', as an aid to 'resettlement'. This meant one of a list of 3, if I was lucky.
Seeing as I asked for Marham, no problem, I got it
Would the painter have had to pay his own passage? Mind you with todays airfares it isn't the problem that it was in 1965.