Coff, you're a star, thank you very much. We've just come back from the village pub and my darling wife was cursing the fact that she hadn't been able to increase the size
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Re the ads - Colin Burns was on 30 when I arrived back from Changi - a fantastic goalie, was that allowed for Towers guys? Met him years later at a party at Joe Oldfield's house near Lyneham.
I had never met or heard of Mitch until meeting him in France in 2007 when we moved there, we became chums until we came back in 2010 - he is there for the duration, so much so that he and his good lady have already bought their plots in the local cemetery!
I recognise the good-looking nav' in the second ad', I think he was first tour on 36 when I was on 30 at Lyneham. Was he later a boss of 10 Sqn?
Upgently - I was on 48 from Dec' 67 until Oct' 69 - the bastards short-toured me by far too much! Does that tally with your time?