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Aden 1967

Photo sent in by Brendan Quirk

Me - Alex Wilson - Brian Ali El Adem 1968
Me Alex Wilson Brian Ali 1967

Aden 1967

Photos sent in by Geoff Bushell

Taking a break during loading of sea mail onto a 30 Ft Trailer
Taking a break during loading of sea mail onto a 30 Ft Trailer
"Range Day" Rear: 2LT Morrow, George Blunsome ,Tommy Compson, G
“Range Day” Rear: 2Lt Morrow, George Blunsome ,Tommy Compson, Geoff Bushell Front: Wally Moat, Fred Toker, “Puggy” Poole, Bob Mooney

Photos sent in by Tom Compson

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RAF Kormaksea
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Kormakser Billets After Families Moved Out
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Tom Compson
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Joe Norwood & Tom Compson
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Forgotten Name & Tom Compson
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Bronco Lane, Joe Norwood & Tom Compsom
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Bronco Lane

Aden 1959/60

Photos sent in by Harold Meads

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Taken outside the Forces PO at Steamer Point. Standing L to R: Lt Ford, Sprs Gill & Hill both National service, Cpl Taff Price Sitting: Clive (Taff) Jones, could be either Cpl or spr as he got busted a few times
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Taken inside the Parcels Office at Steamer Point during one of the many drinks sessions!! we had there Sitting at the table in foreground L to R, Sprs Meads, Chown & Biggs all NS. Behind & between Chown & Biggs Spr Pat Hines – Is this the Pat Hines whose name appears regularly on the website, could it be the same Pat Hines? Please let the Webmaster know. 2nd from R, middle, in white shirt with back to camera and glass to mouth Sgt Bob Arnett
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Taken on Christmas Day or Boxing Day at the billet bar built by the occupants of the top floor (220/2 Chapel Hill I think) As a small unit we were billeted with the RAF st Steamer Point. Tradition was that the RAF MU loaned each billet a large fridge for Christmas and the OC et al awarded a liquid prize for the best hand built bar. we had a great bunch of RAF mates Behind the bar Clive Jones, in the background some faces I don’t recall. at the bar L to R Harry Meads in waistcoat, George Gill, Harry Arnold, Ernie Hill Foreground Roy Biggs, Alan Chown. Behind Chown is McGowan – I think – who was Cassevacced home with a broken leg. The only one of these people that I know anything about since demob is Roy Biggs who I made contact with via your website. I’m also in touch with Alan davies who I knew briefly at PTS Mill Hill 1959/60
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I got this off the internet. Lovely shot of one of the new air-conditioned billets with the Forces Post Office in the background then two billets going uphill in two steps. the second of the billets is the one where we lived on the top floor. A closer look will show and RAF 3 tonner at the end of PO winding its way up the hill
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Showing the front of the FPO with the unit’s 3 tonner. The lad is the Indian tailor’s son. Note the unattended mail on the loading bay. Must’ve been afternoon after Maj J G Long OC had gone home.
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Taken following an Arab wagon up through the Crater Pass
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Location Streamer Point. Taken at a cricket match between Aden GPO and 261 PURE (supplemented by some RAF mates) – with duty clerks etc we hadn’t enough men left to field a full team Roy Bigg’s entry on the website’s REunite page mentions this event The building on the left high background housed the Forces Post Office on the left side of the bottom floor, the three doors to the right were to the Indian tailor’s shop. The modern three storey building in the near background is Scampton block, one of the new air-conditioned billets Front row L-R includes Spr Wood, Lt Ford, Spr Arnold and Cpl Taff Price Back row L-R includes Sprs Gill & Hill, Taff Jones, Harry Meads, 2 RAF bods, Roy Biggs, Alan Chown and far right Spr Day??