Alnwick Rum

[Dave Burgess]

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Deffo Pat!

[trubrit2411]

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Them wo the days Tone! Eric Willets wuz a draughtsman, Mark Hamill wuz in Crossroo-ads n I ended up in 1 Para on mi path ta stardom but 56 fukkin years later still fukkin waitin!

You more than made your mark in the bod game Dave....yer photo was in the rogues gallery, on the wall in West Brom Strength Club at Gayton Rd Community Centre. when I was infesting the place from 14 til I joined up. Thats why when I got to Maida I went looking for ya but you and the rest of 1 Para were baby sitting Khormaksar by then.

[Dave Burgess]

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Worra a fukkin jolly holiday that wuz Tone n the suntan wuz summat ta die for"

[bob9739]

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We now know why they all want to come over here, instead of residing in miles of shit coloured fekk all !

[Dave Burgess]

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Shit covered fukk all Bob? thad get dun under the trades description act fer mekin the shitoyl sound much nicer than it actually fukkin iz!

[bob9739]

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Remember landing at Khormasker, on our way to somewhere or other, middle of the night sweating our bollocks off and we were given a curry at the cookhouse. thought I was going to melt !

[trubrit2411]

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I just looked at it on google earth.... and the Crater there ain't a blade of grass anywhere. Fook being a lawnmower salesman there. I tried to post it but got 403 'd

[Dave Burgess]

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Plenty o Camel, Ox, n human shit lyin around tho Tone if thaz inta that kind o stuff. Wonder why some geezer never opened a shit shoveller business?

[treeman]

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This was my basha for a short while well up-country from Khormaksar. No grass but plenty of Qat. One single 105mm belonging to G Battery, 7 RHA, supporting 1 Para and the 22 lads when they were passing through. This is the place, ( I always called it stoneage) where a freak round from the 105, ricocheted off a small tree stump into the medics basha. A white phos shell. I thought they were all goners but unknown to me they weren't so happy with 105 shells passing by just inches away every night, so had moved quarters. Sensible lads. Spud Murphy was one of the medics.

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[Dave Burgess]

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Was that the Thumier, Habilayn area up country Chris? Time to time used ta ride shotgun fer the RCT lads tekkin stuff up the Dhala road, not only dizzy sniper gauntlet ta run but searching culverts fer mines.

[treeman]

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Was that the Thumier, Habilayn area up country Chris? Time to time used ta ride shotgun fer the RCT lads tekkin stuff up the Dhala road, not only dizzy sniper gauntlet ta run but searching culverts fer mines.

Yes Dave, even further up towards Saana and the Border. I had a picture of me in the back of a three tonner while we were driving up that road (sand and rock) to Thumeir, but it's disappeared. British Army mine protection; put some sandbags on the truck floor. lol

[Dave Burgess]

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Reminded mi o that flick starrin Tyrone Powerlifter about the Kyber Pass I wetched az a bin lid Chris. Fukkin Dizzies behind every rock on the ridge line!