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Ts memoir illustrated with many photographs (171pp) with few dates recording his service (1989 – May 2009, retiring aged 55) as a medic with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAAF), including his family background in Brixton, London (1953 – 1989), including his dancing (1970s – 2000) notably with the famous Peggy Spencer Latin Penge Formation Team; his training at RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire (1989 – 1991); his service with No 4625 (Aeromedical Evacuation) Squadron RAAF at RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire (1991 – 2008), notably his call up from the reserves and service in the First Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and No 4 RAF War Hospital at Camp Muharraq in Bahrain (1991), in the Second Gulf War at Akrotiri in Cyprus (March 2003 – April 2003) transporting casualties on arrival from Kuwait from the airport to the TPMH Hospital, and with the II Squadron RAF Regiment at Khandahar Camp as part of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan (2007); commenting on keeping up morale during the First Gulf War by teaching his comrades to dance, for which he was mentioned in despatches; life in the RAAF, notably his training, his NCOs and his comrades; being attacked by Iraqi scud missiles; wearing NBC suits; the heat and the conditions in the desert; the wildlife, notably snakes; 'delly belly' (dysentery); his reception on return to the UK (First Gulf War) and meeting Prince Charles and Princess Diana (June 1991); receiving the Air Efficiency Medal after ten years' service with the RAAF (1999); rockets fired by the Taliban (2007); treating the wounded, including Afghan children; attending a Garden Party at Highgrove and meeting the Prince of Wales (July 2007); and mentioning Claire Sweeney (actress) in her role as Forces Sweetheart. Together with a printed memoir (51pp) recording his 'Dancing Years' as a champion ballroom dancer and some associated photographs.
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Ts memoir illustrated with many photographs (171pp) with few dates recording his service (1989 – May 2009, retiring aged 55) as a medic with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAAF), including his family background in Brixton, London (1953 – 1989), including his dancing (1970s – 2000) notably with the famous Peggy Spencer Latin Penge Formation Team; his training at RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire (1989 – 1991); his service with No 4625 (Aeromedical Evacuation) Squadron RAAF at RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire (1991 – 2008), notably his call up from the reserves and service in the First Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and No 4 RAF War Hospital at Camp Muharraq in Bahrain (1991), in the Second Gulf War at Akrotiri in Cyprus (March 2003 – April 2003) transporting casualties on arrival from Kuwait from the airport to the TPMH Hospital, and with the II Squadron RAF Regiment at Khandahar Camp as part of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan (2007); commenting on keeping up morale during the First Gulf War by teaching his comrades to dance, for which he was mentioned in despatches; life in the RAAF, notably his training, his NCOs and his comrades; being attacked by Iraqi scud missiles; wearing NBC suits; the heat and the conditions in the desert; the wildlife, notably snakes; 'delly belly' (dysentery); his reception on return to the UK (First Gulf War) and meeting Prince Charles and Princess Diana (June 1991); receiving the Air Efficiency Medal after ten years' service with the RAAF (1999); rockets fired by the Taliban (2007); treating the wounded, including Afghan children; attending a Garden Party at Highgrove and meeting the Prince of Wales (July 2007); and mentioning Claire Sweeney (actress) in her role as Forces Sweetheart. Together with a printed memoir (51pp) recording his 'Dancing Years' as a champion ballroom dancer and some associated photographs.
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