9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1984 - Page 0116
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1984 |
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THE 9THt lZTH ROVAL LANcEns antMENiAL JOURNAL The benefits however were far greater, Foremost was that it was our oamp to do largely as we pleased without fear of interruption or oversupethSton - heady stuff, and our fatltngs wtll probably show in a generation! Sorrtettrnes the Chief of Tratning or Head of the Army would arrive but this was largely an excuse to kill the fatted call, the arrival of the commander CMTTU meant a replen of wittsky from Natrobtl The Charmtng people, unltke other Atncans, wnhout resentment towards whites, honest, pleasant, always laughing and glad, alntost honoured to see you, If never grateful The evening drives for guinea fowl and francolit‘t, Uganda Kob from the verandah, baboons and chickens and the goats, a cold beer (the day we installed a fridge was the best we hadl and talking long into the night, retiring to the improved (Advanced Australianl long drop with a month Old Copy pl a newspaper, a lot recrpe for COMPO and a bucket shower after a 14 hour hot sticky day were tremendous pleasures, quite Indescnbabte. Then there were the times olf, one Week in tour, lbut you needed It) and safarts to Kenya , the Aberdares, Motrtbassa, Latino and, of course, the Muthetga for a barn in Uganda, the Rwertzori. With the Mounts of the Moon, the impenetrable tungle and It‘s gortllas, lion and elephant In the Queen Elizabeth Park all for 20 bob a day It was like Ryder Haggard and Lawrence Durrell come alive What wttl happen to Uganda is rather hard to forecast. Tribalism, corruption, arid appalling decay from previous great levels wreak havoc With the people and their self esteem. But the country itself preserves- itch, fertile, plenty In water and With it's animals returning. An optimist, and it is hard not to be one when you are there, would claim to see it re emerging as the rea/tewel of East Africa. it it does, there Will be some people who enjoy that ascent With the affection that probably only comes to an autstder who, has had a chance not only to visit but, to be a part at it. PJL H4 SPORTING FOR CHERRY SPECIAL ITS PRICE SALOON, 3 DOORS 1477cc ENGINE 75 PS spam-y, 5 SPEED GEAR BOX INCLUDING FRONT SPOILER, DM113, 11 WIRE WHEELS, INCLUDING sponrv SEATS GERMAN TAXES DATSUN FROM NISSAN. EST FOR 50 YEARS ALPERT AUTOMOBILES NlSSAN DEALER Fritz~Reuterweg 43 3340 Wolfenbflttel Tel. 0533143045 , -« :, . n M JR... , Practising tire and movement on the amt square MTS Kabatnba |
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