An ordinary patrol on exercise. Not to be confused with another kind!

Lorries taking troops from Kuching to Serian, which became one of our main forward bases, during one tour of Sarawak. Our forward locations on this tour were Plaman Mapu, Pang Amo, Kujang Sein, and the police station at Tebedu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Embarking on 'operations'. Main Base 'park up' and re-fuelling area.

 
'Lifting out', and looking forward to some nice showers and the 'smelliest' soap and talcum powder available.
 An aircraft of the type that used to re-supply us and act as a general transport. There was a four engined version of an aircraft of this type we know as the C130-Hercules.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Early morning at sea, prior to dis-embarking. Things got quite busy after the photo was taken. "Re-supply at sea", otherwise known as a 'RAS' "The hangar deck", other wise known as 'the belly of the beast'

A picture of one of our Barracks/Garrisons in Singapore, called Dieppe Barracks on the road to Sembawang. When we left I think it was turned into a teaching/university hospital campus. What happened to it after that I don't know. Perhaps readers may be able to tell me. We had a second barracks across the airfield from where the photo was taken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Footnote

This piece was originally written for E-Borneo website
My brief was to write something for the a largely civilian audience from a human interest point or view, without including "Blood  & Guts" etc, of any kind this website's owner didn't want this included.  The use of photographs which 'didn't show too much'