Not that I should drag this subject off course but there was another memory from those days on the S & T Dept. Nowadays, most people would say of an "old soldier", he (or she) will never talk of their military service. Well they did in those days, to the point of as I was "the lad" and responsible for keeping our mess and tool van clean and tidy, I would be told to get my best brush at dinner time to sweep up the sand from yet another trip to Sidi Barrani, Mersa Matruh or of course, El Alamain. Cracks of thunder brought forth the command, "Tin hats lads, Jerry has found the range!"