Having Been a Soldier

As the sun set on the greatest empire the world has ever known British soldiers in the Sixties were deployed to some of the last outposts of the British Empire. There were dirty fights, the Confrontation in Brunei, the Radfan Campaign, Aden & Oman and Cyprus. But overall, during this period the bulk of the British army were but watchers as garrison troops in the Cold War, awaiting and expecting a Russian attack in the West. Meanwhile being overseas, they were on the loose on foreign soil and this is what they got up to.