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Dave Parker
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Date Posted: 21:29:26 03/08/05 Tue
Tony, I don't know what it is about NI but, despite doing six tours (I think?) I don't seem to have many memories. Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that I didn't like the place? I do remember the first time we went though. It was Easter and we where getting ready for a long weekend. We where on Strategic-Reserve so it didn't come as that big a surprise to get a bug out just before the weekend started. Off we all trundled to Brize Norton and loaded aboard a Hercy-bird, still thinking it was a practice, one circuit and land, then home for tea and a long weekend. One landing later, at Aldergrove, and Welcome to NI.
6 weeks, I think, that first tour and a bit of a lark. Drinking tea at the front doors of the Proddies in the New Barnsely Estate, opposite the Ballymurphy, and living on the streets most of the time till we got billeted in the school, by the Springfield Road, whilst they were on Easter break. Organising bingo in the church hall was our biggest headache. What a change when we went back for the second tour though! I can't, for the life of me, remember how we came home from that tour or, for that matter, how we got over there and back for the next 5? Seem to vaguely remember a drive up to Liverpool for the ferry for one tour but the rest are a blank. Some dim, spark was ignited when 'chinky' crew was mentioned though, might have been the Gallahad!
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