The Recce Platoon had a great job on this posting, they were almost
always in civvies and doing their own thing, they were known as "Bogans
Heroes", he was Plt. C/Sgt. They had a couple of dubious looking
civilian vehicles that Signals had rigged up with radios, and were forever
off on some secret squirrel operations with big grins on their faces.
Of course, as with all elite forces, they came in for a fair bit of
derision and piss taking by the other 'normal lads', but they got good
results and were admired by all ranks.
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Private Nicholas Richardson(LI Som Office)
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Sgt Bob Bogan BEM.and Sgt Peter Slade Credit
LI Som Office
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Sgt Peter Slade (LI Som Office)
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Sheikh Othman as it is today (John Reid)
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Grenade corner Sheikh Othman(BBogan
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Beach checkpoint search (BBogan)
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The Recce Platoon. Back row left to right
Ernie Lethbrige, Kipper Fleet, Rob Robinson, Terry Cheek,
Les Summers, D. Thomas (Tommo)
Front Row. Smudge Smith, Sid Ovenden, Nipper Stone, forgotten
his name I think it may have been Lillington, Bob Bogan, Lol
Prosser, Frank Stuckey (Pic by Terry Cheek)
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Sheik Othman. If I recall correctly the white building with
the tower (centre bottom half) is the Police Station with the
main street crossing left to right and the market up the road
to the left of the
police station. I should remember, Sid Ovenden and I were banged
up in there
one night. (Pic by Terry Cheek)
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Pictures by: John Reid, Bob Bogan BEM., Terry Cheek
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