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Memories
of Contributed
by Trevor STUBBERFIELD 52A Libyan Extras Continued. Photos
by Tony Burton, R.E.M.E. 19 Arm’d Workshop,
R.E.M.E. Gialo Barracks (Annexe), Tripoli. 5 Medium
Workshop, R.E.M.E. Gurgi Barracks, Tripoli. Station
Workshop, R.E.M.E. Gurgi Barracks, Tripoli. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Editor’s
Note |
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Tony Burton made contact having served in Tripoli during my
time there. We started in the same
unit, though at different times, where I only actually spent one night before
walking across the road to the unit where I was supposed to have arrived at
first. The R.E.M.E. Workshops, listed
above, regularly changed names and I
can go back one step and add that No.1 Base Workshop, R.E.M.E. was at Gurgi
Barracks prior to it becoming 5 Medium W/S. Tony has kindly supplied some of his photos and thoughts,
which dovetail nicely into the main theme of the article. They widen our memories of life in Libya
during the 1950s. _____________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Tony
writes…….... |
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I arrived in Tripoli, late October, at 19 Arm’d W/S R.E.M.E.
based in the Gialo barracks annexe, just across the road from you. I arrived from Bordon as a VM A2 B1. At one time I was temporarily detached to
the Queen’s Bays at Sabratha to bulk up their L.A.D. during the making of
‘the other film’ No Time To Die with Victor Mature et. al. Later I moved to 5 Med W/S which morphed
into Station W/S with postings made on paper without anybody actually
relocating. |
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Herewith
my photograph taken just before mounting guard at Gialo annex and
illustrating the level of annotation on the rear. This
must have been taken in early October 1956, just after I arrived at Tripoli.
After the guard was mounted we went back to the billet and changed into
boiler suits. We were "armed" with pick axe shafts. |
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A roof collapse at Gialo
(annexe) following a severe storm. |
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Vehicles damaged by the cave in were a Land Rover, Mk.1
Standard Vanguard which belonged to C.R.E.M.E. and a Humber Pullman belonging
to the G.O.C. Neither were very happy. |
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Bedford QL 3ton 4X4 with
the local equivalent of ‘air conditioning’. |
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These photos are of the tanks, Centurions in DAK livery, which
were pretending to be German MK4 tanks and were used in the making of the
film ‘No time to die’. They belonged
to the 2nd Dragoon Guards The Queen’s Bays to whom I was temporarily detached
for the duration of the film plus the 6 week long ‘scheme’ designed to give
the impression of the tanks having been in battle conditions and not too
pristine, a bit like me. |
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Guard commander at Gurgi. The one
failing in my annotation of photographs was a failure to date them.
Idiot! They must have been taken very early in 1958 because I was made
an acting full screw in January of that year. I was a substantive lance jack
taking my stripe with me from Gialo annex. 2 additional photo's taken at the same time
follow showing me and Sid Oliver. Sid was a baby and only 5'2" whereas I
was 23 and 5'11". |
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First
Published: 1st May 2017. Latest
Update: 1st June 2018. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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