The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

'Sans Peur'       Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders red and white dicing       'Ne Obliviscaris'

A Snapshot of Service
in 'A' Company of the Argylls
Tobruk Barracks - 1958

Map of Libya

  from the A&SH tray..........
Stirling Castle, raw recruit in the butts of the firing range turns to Sergeant Tam Johnston.
'Has anyone ever been shot on the range, sergeant?'
'Naw, never!'
Bang! Aaahhhh! The recruit screams - hit in the knee by a ricochet off the metal target plates.

barrack room in Tobruk
Photo © H M Aitken 		How about the bull in this barrack room, then?

Just look at that shine, and those lily-white towels all folded in regimental size, level, shape, height, thickness, colour, angle, aspect, attitude, inclination, orientation................

"Haw maw, wur ye no proud o' us?"

I never did see how this compared with what the RAF boys lived in!


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