Aden,1960's

Brent Chambers · Sep 24, 2008

From left to right, looks like P and O's Iberia, Royal Rotterdam Lloyd's Mataram or Slamat?, and P and O's Arcadia.
The carrier is, I think, HMS Centaur. Picture dated August 1962.

Tom Haywood · Sep 25, 2008

Spent a month in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Korrmacsia (?) in 1965. A great place it was not. All the nurses came from Somalia.

alastairjs · Sep 25, 2008

Tom,
Spelt Khormaksar, home of the RAF base which doubled as the air port. The hospital started life as "The RAF Hospital" before being renamed in honor of the Queen. I too spent some time in it in 1952 being treated for heat stroke aged 5. I, fortunately, only spent a week there. Then it was back to school at Barrack Hill with transport provided by the RAF in the form of 2 or 3 tons trucks fitted with wooden bench seats. Happy days!
Regards,
Alastair

Tom Haywood · Sep 25, 2008

Thanks for the spelling Alastair, wasn't even near it.

thks

Brent Chambers

Tom Haywood

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