The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

'Sans Peur' 'Ne Obliviscaris'

A Snapshot of Service 'A' Company In Transit Cyprus to Tobruk - 1958 Map of Libya	from the A&SH tray.......... Borg Leopold, Belgian border, 'A' Company were told by the CQMS that their chocolate ration would be swapped for eggs. Days passed and nae eggs arrived! Midnight raid by Jocks on chocolate ration! Tins of chocolate shared-out and buried everywhere in our tents. Not a word was said! No names! No pack drill! No charges!

Background Information On the 25th September 1958, 'A' Company was posted to RAF Tobruk to be guard of honour for King Idris I of Libya. We remained there until the 3rd December 1958, before returning to Cyprus to join the Battalion at Alexander Barracks in the Dhekelia Garrison. Tobruk is a town on the Mediterannean coast in the northern province of Cyrenaica. It is Libya's third most important seaport after Tripoli and Benghazi.	A few miles to the east of the town lies the Egyptian border and to the south lies the Libyan desert, which is a northern extension of the great Sahara desert. On Libya's western border lie the countries of Tunisia and Algeria. Libya is an Arab republic where Tribal affiliations are very strong in the social order of the country. The people mostly depend on commercial farming based on irrigation, for there is little annual rainfall. The discovery of oil in the 1950's gave a dramatic boost to the economy and established Libya as one of the richest countries in the Middle East.

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