MPN11 (your #7995),
...The Deep Trench Latrine ... ah, there was one at RAF Stanley on the airfield site, where the climate was perhaps more conducive to its use than the tropics.......Oh what fun we had in ATC Local, lobbing a well-timed bird-scaring cartridge in that direction [with deflection for wind, of course] to assist those suffering from 'dietary congestion'. We should have charged for the service!...
and
JW411 (your #7996).
...I can well remember being on a major exercise in El Adem in 1963 ("Triplex West"). We were all under canvas in the bundu on the west side of the airfield. Us aircrew had a 10-holer Deep Trench Latrine with a hessian screen about four feet tall in front which spared the airmen walking past on their way to work from having too much to laugh at...
My Post p.153/#3047 (
"Danny, some local History and the Deep Trench Latrine"..... Extra Title: "Danny and matters scatologigal: - The Deep Trench Latrine"), may add a little local colour (and perhaps a louder bang,
MPN11 !)
Danny.