heroes ihave worked with and many more professional soldiers

[treeman]

Re: heroes ihave worked with and many more professional soldiers

Re: heroes ihave worked with and many more professional soldiers
Both lads Captain 455015 Robert Edwards aged 27 and Sapper 23613183 John Warburton were caught and beheaded on the 30th April 1964 by the Red Wolves of Radfan. After much back handers and intelligence gathering their bodies were recovered in Wady Taym and eventually following their heads being displayed on the spiked gates of Taiz, they were found buried in Qataba.


They both died of gunshot wounds when the patrol was compromised and surrounded by Arabs. Their bodies had to be left behind when the patrol took their chance to escape as nightfall closed in.

[Gil]

Re: heroes ihave worked with and many more professional soldiers

The good news of course was in the circumstances, that their "whole" bodies were eventually recovered after a lot of Backsheesh!!! RIP

[bob9739]

Re: heroes ihave worked with and many more professional soldiers

RIP Lads

[Dave Burgess]

Re: heroes ihave worked with and many more professional soldiers

R.I.P.

[standinthedoor]

Re: heroes ihave worked with and many more professional soldiers

About 62ish 1 Para loaded heavy drop on to aircraft, parachutes were put on the seats of all of the aircraft at Nicosia airfield, supplies were stacked on the airfield, we practiced jumping out of the back of 4 tonners and RV'ing across a 'DZ' near Waynes Keep area, we lined up on the square with all of our kit on several times in a week, the CO (Lt Col Rheinhold?) went to some shit hole on a recce, we were to drop on a mountainside in the Radfan area, then it was decided 22 could cope. Anyone else involved in that?