Dyak girls lined the quayside to wave farewell to the last British troops to leave Sarawak in 1967. Their troopship, the Empire Kittiwake, was the last to leave Kuching at the end of the three-year confrontation in Borneo, during which hundreds of British military ships called at the port.
Elsewhere, the British Army was withdrawing from Aden and becoming enmeshed in the troubles that were brewing in Northern Ireland.
And who remembers the rains that swamped 1,000 square miles of southern England in the autumn of 1968? Army personnel turned out in force from Southampton to East Anglia to help stranded citizens.
Sovereign Base Area Cyprus |
Aden's dirty war |
End of Soldier's pin-up |
Invasion 1066 by Larry |
The town of tension – Aden |
Infantry – the future |
Defence Review 1967 |
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The End – Aden |
North of Panama – Belize |
All quiet on the western front – Hong Kong |
Water, water everywhere |
Across the sea to Ireland |
Behind the pomp and circumstance of the Investiture |
Start of the Troubles |
High without oxygen |
24 hours-a-day in Northern Ireland |
Last of the Army's transport horses |
Guardians of the six counties – The UDR |
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