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Old 28th Aug 2014, 10:11
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ancientaviator62
 
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StopStart,
great pic and it does indeed generate many (blurred) memories.
There is no 'other camp' as far as I am concerned, this thread is about the 'K' as it has now like some of us been retired.
Seeing the pic reminds me of the Turkish invasion of Northern Cyprus. We were doing refugee evacuation back to the UK (27 different nationalities). The Turkish AF had bombed the Keo Brewery in Limasol by error when targeting a Cyprus National Guard post. This 'war crime' meant no beer at Akrotiri.
The UK breweries came to the rescue and we flew beer out and evacuees home.
However after a short while the breweries refused to send any more beer.
The empty aluminium kegs were not being returned and they took a dim view of this fact. So a couple of specials were laid on whose sole task was the repatriation of empty beer kegs. The beer supply resumed and it was happiness all round.
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