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aerial99
Old Sweat 
Joined: 05 March 2006 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 324 |
   Posted: 05 April 2006 at 6:49am |
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The closest I got to it when the "Nevasa"(anyone remember her?)stopped there in 1961 en route to Singapore.
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khormaksar
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Joined: 10 October 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1933 |
Posted: 05 April 2006 at 2:45pm |
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Yes Aerial 99, I do remember the Nevasa ariving in Aden and if you were around the "Crescent" in Steamer it's more than likely I would have run into you. I landed at Steamer on the "Devonshire" myself, they were en route to Singapore with the "Sherwood Foresters"
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aerial99
Old Sweat
Joined: 05 March 2006 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 324 |
Posted: 06 April 2006 at 6:53am |
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We replaced the SHERWOOD FORESTERS in Selerang Barracks in Singapore.I think the Devonshire passed us (very close) and there was a lot of "Loving Messages" verbally passed between the two ships. Great Memories. |
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Mike S
In Training 
Joined: 23 March 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
Posted: 23 March 2007 at 6:01pm |
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I served with REME 57-58 and agree with everthing said it was a stinking awful place and it was a pleasure to go up country or so it seems now and I am another one that looks upon my service in Aden with fondness. |
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kendew
In Training
Joined: 23 April 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
Posted: 23 April 2007 at 2:00pm |
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I was filthy and it stank but I have many humourous memories of it, like the time in 1967 when terrible storms broke and the whole place flooded (well it did need a wash) I saw a skeleton float by me which had supposedly been washed out of it's grave with a thick piece of sh*t sticking out of its mouth just like a cigar. I think because the situation was quite desperate you had to develop a sense of humour quite quickly to be able to cope with it.
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basso
Senior Officer
Joined: 17 May 2007 Location: New Zealand Online Status: Offline Posts: 639 |
Posted: 21 May 2007 at 2:19am |
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Too much booze, too much sand and not enough women KH.
Did you ever get down to Silver Sands Camp, Mombassa for some
R&R. That would put you right.
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radar96
In Training
Joined: 17 April 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
Posted: 21 April 2008 at 12:37pm |
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Unlike the rest of you on here, I did not serve in Aden but my father did. I was there living on Mallah? strait, going to school (for half a day) aon chapehill and khormaksar. We all thought it was a great place, even my mother. I also remember the Nevasa soming in to steamer point, had a visit to HMS Bulwark, HMS Ark Royal, school trips in twin pioneer aircraft instead of a bus!!! Great, although I do agree it turned into a bit of sh*thole when the trouble started.
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the jigger
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Joined: 14 October 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1760 |
Posted: 21 April 2008 at 2:31pm |
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i say some old post are being dragged to the fore....
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i would do a good turn before a bad one,,try it |
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Pepper
First Posting 
Joined: 08 June 2006 Location: Bhutan Online Status: Offline Posts: 63 |
Posted: 21 April 2008 at 5:10pm |
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Hey Jigger, someone in another area was concerned about your recent absence.
And as for "old posts being dragged..., etc, ......" Well, just look at the lost and found sections of many of these sites.... - i.e.- " Looking for my Father......Looking for my Dad....Looking for my Mothers Partner, etc, etc, etc......" It's rife out there, there are so many,many of us....
We ain't dragging stuff, very far from it.....
I'm assuming that's what you were hinting at ??
By the way, the greatest of apologies if I picked your post up wrongly. Just how you came across, tis all.
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the jigger
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Joined: 14 October 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1760 |
Posted: 21 April 2008 at 8:54pm |
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you did but thats ok... :D it happens... peeps tend to read the negative as norm...
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i would do a good turn before a bad one,,try it |
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treeman
First Posting
Joined: 20 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 63 |
Posted: 21 April 2008 at 8:59pm |
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Silver Sands Mombasa; had an unforgetable two weeks there in 1965 during a Bahrain posting. Can,t afford to go back now I,m a civvy.
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Pepper
First Posting
Joined: 08 June 2006 Location: Bhutan Online Status: Offline Posts: 63 |
Posted: 22 April 2008 at 12:12pm |
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Hey J,
Thanks.
But what's a "Peep" ?
I have memories of the pool at Sembowang,..... and of the aircraft taxying ( Spelling ? ) away from the Airport in Singers, leaving for the UK, despite my mother trying to stop me looking.
I was 2 1/2 yrs old at the time.
Memories, bonds and committments never ever fade.
So many others come on these sites, hoping and searching for "something".
All I ask, is that no one ever mocks them.
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the jigger
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Joined: 14 October 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1760 |
Posted: 22 April 2008 at 2:18pm |
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peeps = people
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i would do a good turn before a bad one,,try it |
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khormaksar
5 Star General
Joined: 10 October 2005 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1933 |
Posted: 24 April 2008 at 12:58pm |
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Radar 96, I did the bus guard, from Salahadin Rd. down thro' mallah, 61/62, how far down the strait were you, which side?
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Beaufighter
Moderator Group 
Joined: 26 October 2005 Location: Germany Online Status: Offline Posts: 2098 |
Posted: 24 April 2008 at 3:07pm |
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Originally posted by basso
Hey Basso, you're bringing back memories to me of Mombasa as I, with my family spent 2 great weeks there in the 'Manor Park Hotel' right opposite the Cathedral if I remember correctly. This was in Aug.1962 and we flew down to Aden from Bahrain in a Beverley A/C and then with EAS to Mombasa. The return journey to Bahrain took a lot longer as we had to wait in the 'Red Sea Hotel' in Aden for over 10 days for places on an A/C.
Too much booze, too much sand and not enough women KH. Did you ever get down to Silver Sands Camp, Mombassa for some R&R. That would put you right. Altogether quite a cheap holiday but did you ever get to the 'Bristol Bar' and another that I've forgotten the name of in Mombasa which were notorious for their ladies of leisure ?
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radar96
In Training
Joined: 17 April 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
Posted: 24 April 2008 at 5:54pm |
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Khormaksar,
heading out towards steamer point we were on the left in a bulding called hexham house above a shop called the aden cold store. i think the building next door was called the maktari building.
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