Thanks for the detail, ORAC. Agree there are a lot of apparent errors in the article, as you highlight.
Long after my time on Stanley airfield (1983), but a couple of subsidiary questions for clarity, please.
1. Mount Alice was a full 4-month deployment? That is one bleak and lonely place to spend the time. Did you ever get R&R during the det?
2. Roughly how many personnel on the unit?
3. Could the "4 weeks" have been a temporary move from Mount Kent [assuming she was TG12] or from Stanley/Mt Pleasant to fill a temporary shortfall in a particular Trade?
4. Is that a solid fuel stove and chimney in the background of the 1st picture? Does that resonate with your memories?
An unpleasant story as presented, though.
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