The subject of the Aden Emergency came up at work yesterday. It turned out that one of my colleagues had been in the Argylls. He wasn't in Aden himself of course. He's about my age and I was three, but when he'd first joined up a lot of the older men had served there, and still talked about the retaking of the Crater.My colleague wanted to know if we'd been there the same time of the Argylls. I told him I didn't think we had; the families had been withdrawn the previous June, but Mum would know. It was a reminder I should record her memories before it's too late.
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