1939: Embarkation to India cancelled; spent the War in Warrington.

Second car - Riley Lynx Sports Tourer 1937

Meeting President Frondisi of Argentina, Buenos Aires 1959

United Services Chatham, Mediterranean Fleet XV, RN Malta Sevens winners - Marsa Club, Malta GC 1962

Near East Forces Ski Championships, Troodos Mountains,Cyprus 1962.

HMS ALBION - Commando Carrier - 1964 to 1966

HM Naval Base, Singapore, 1966

60 years ago - BRNC Dartmouth 'Chest Flat'  accommodation

Leptis Magna, Libya - British Naval Mission & Cultural Attaché,  British Embassy Tripoli - 1971/72

Royal Marine Band + 1 : HM Yacht BRITANNIA 1975

HMS DEVONSHIRE - Atlantic Fleet Missile Firing Range 1978

Warborough Village Green - Benson & Roke Silver Band 1979

Rawalpindi - Call on Vice Chief of Army Staff - 1982

World  Record - Muscat to Demanyats 14hrs 30mins 1982

Great Dhofar 25 km Road Race - Qara Mts to Salalah 1982

RN Gibraltar Yola Coxed IV 'Royal Catherine' 1985

1956:  First car - 1924 Pramhood Chummy, (Suez crisis - no petrol).  Bought for £3-10s-0d.

Cowes 1958 - 1st in XOD Class

40/60 Bofors mounting - Action Stations, Gulf of Aqaba. Withdrawal of last British troops (Cameronians) from Jordan in late 1958 - HMS Chichester.

1948 Alvis coupé - Beaufort Street 1961

163 Main Street, Balzan - Staff of CinC Allied Forces, Mediterranean 1961-63

'Up Spirits' - the daily rum ration (abolished 1971)

Rock of Gibraltar, 848 Cdo Squadron, and Levanter cloud

Captain's Divisions, HMS CHARYBDIS 1970 - Tropical rig

Gatineau River, Ontario - British Defence Liaison Staff, British High Commission, Ottawa - 1973/75

HM Yacht BRITANNIA - July 1976: Household & Officers

HMS DEVONSHIRE - Ship's Company Photograph - 1978

Roosevelt Roads - Puerto Rico

RN Portsmouth RC - Tideway Head of the River Race 1980

Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race -125 miles: 1981

My first solo hot air balloon ascent - Oman desert 1982

('Cloud Hopper' : sadly later caught fire)

Founder of the Sultan of Oman's Naval Band - Sur, 1983

Change of Command - Flag Officer Gibraltar 1985

1955: Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth - pulling 32 ft cutter (2nd up, port side)

Malayan Emergency - Ipoh patrol 1959

(As displayed in the Imperial War Museum)

Office of Commander in Chief, The Nore, Admiralty House, Chatham, 1960.

Cresta Run, St Moritz 1960

Yet another car - Hotel Phoenicia, Malta GC 1963

'Confrontation' with Indonesia: Borneo 1963-66

Aden Protectorate /Aden Colony 1965 (now Yemen)

Beira Patrol 1970 - mail drop by RAF Shackleton

Samoan Dancers - HM & HRH Pacific Tour 1977

Queen's Birthday Parade - Grand Cayman 1978

HMS DEVONSHIRE's Guard and Band

RN PT Officers Meeting - HMS NELSON 1979

Crossing the Hardanger Vidda, Norway - 1980

Sand yachting - Rima, Wahiba Sands 1982

Straits of Gibraltar en route to Ceuta, North Africa 1984

Trafalgar Night Dinner - HMS ROOKE - 21 Oct 1984

(See Part II)