Index

Afghanistan here

Afrikaans here

Aga Khan here

Ahmad, Muhammad here

aircraft:

C-47 Douglas ‘Dakota’ here

C-130 Hercules here, here

‘sniffer’ here

see also helicopters

Aitkin, Stu here

Aldershot here, here

Algeria here

AMA Associates Ltd here, here

ammunition here

Anderson, Mike here

Angola here, here, here, here

Ardoyne Road here, here, here

Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) here

armoured vehicles here, here

Buffel here

Jackal here, here, here, here

Ratel (honey badger) here

Unimog 2.5 Mercedes here, here, here

August, Mike ‘Gwan Gwan’ here

Australia here

Australian Army:

2 RAR here, here

6 RAR here

17 Construction Sqn here

1 ATF here, here

Australian Navy here

aviation here, here

Baria here, here

Barr, Dave here, here, here

barrage balloons here

Bayo, Trevor here

Beattie, Sgt Dave ‘Pancho’ here, here, here, here

Belfast here, here, here

Belize here

Bessbrook Mill here, here, here

Billière, Gen Sir Peter de la here, here

Bin Saidi, Lt Adnan here

Blair, Bill here

blue-on-blue incidents here

Bluett, Corp Johnnie here, here

Borneo here

Bougainville Resistance Army (BRA) here, here

BP here

Bradley, Lt Col Neil ‘Nail’ here

Brammal, FM Edwin, Baron here

Branson, Richard here

Breytenbach, Col Jan here, here, here, here

British Army here, here

1 Btn, Para Rgt here

1st Btn, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders here

3rd Btn, Parachute Rgt here

9 Para Field Sqn here

14th Intelligence Detachment (‘Det’) here, here

see also Territorial Army; Ulster Defence Regiment

Brownlee, Sgt Paddy here

Bush War see South African Border War

Cambodia here

Cambrian Patrol here

camouflage here

Canada here

caves here

Caye Caulker here

Chan, Julius here

char-wallahs here

children here, here

China here, here, here, here

civilians here

Clement, Capt Alvin here

close protection teams here

Cold War here

Coleman, John here

Communism here, here

convoys here

counterterrorism (CT) here, here, here

Croukamp, Sgt Maj Dennis here

Cuba here

Department for Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) here, here

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) here

Dhofar here

Diana, Princess of Wales here

Dien Bien Phu here, here

disease here

disruptive pattern material (DPM) here

Dum Dum Island here

DuPuy trench system here

Eagan, Tom here

East Africa here; see also Sudan

Egypt here

Eire here, here, here

Elizabeth, HM the Queen Mother here

enemy camps here

equipment here, here

explosive cutting tape (ECT) here

eye-eyes here, here

FAPLA see Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola

FBI here, here

Fijians here

fire support base (FSB) here

Firebase Garth here, here

Firebase Nola here, here

Firebase Tess here

Firestone Trails here

Flax Street Mill here, here, here

Fleming, Tony here

Fonda, Jane here

food supplies here

Forkhill here

freefalling here

French Indochina War (1946) here, here, here

Gabi, Sao R here

Germany here, here, here, here

Glendenning, Ian here, here, here

Gonifas, ‘Gonny’ here, here

Gordon, Bruce here

Gough, RSM Andy here, here

Grant, Gaz here

Green, Sgt Frank here, here

Guatemala here, here

Gurkhas here

Haiveta, CS here

Hammanskraal here, here

Hanoi here

helicopters: Sioux here

Herefordshire here

hides here

Ho Chi Minh City (HMC) here

Holmes, Ken here

Hong Kong here, here, here

horses here

house searches here

Hue here

Hughes, Maj Rob ‘Shorty’ here

Hungary here

Hythe range here

illegal immigrants (IIs) here, here

illegal vehicle checkpoints (IVCPs) here

improvised explosive devices (IEDs) here

intelligence here, here, here, here

International Maritime Organisation (IMO) here

interrogation here, here

Iranian Embassy Siege here

Irish Republican Army (IRA) here, here, here, here, here, here

and Heathrow bombs here

and surveillance here

Italy here, here

Jebalis here, here, here, here

Johnson, Sean here

jungle warfare here, here

Jungle Warfare School (JWS) here, here

Keown, ‘Big’ Danny here

Khareef here

Khartoum here, here

Kidd, Lt Stan here

Kiev here

‘killing house’ here

Kitchener, Sir Herbert here

Kiwi, Capt Albie here

KMS here, here

Lake Balaton here

land-clearing here

Land Rovers here

Lea-Cox, Clive and Alyson here

Long Hai Mountains here, here

Lord, Mike here

Lydd range here

McAleese, Sgt Pete here, here, here

MacKenzie, Archibald McLea here, here

MacKenzie, Lt Col Jeremy here

MacKenzie forts here, here

malaria here

Malaya here, here, here, here

Maoris here

Mark, Ron here

medals here

medical training here

Mexico here

Military Cross (MC) here

military police (MP) here, here

mines here, here, here, here, here

Monks, Brian here

MPLA see Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola

nail bombs here

Namibia see South West Africa

National Service Training Unit (NSTU) here

National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) here, here, here, here

NATO here, here

navigation here, here

New Zealand here, here, here

New Zealand Army here, here, here, here, here

2 Plt, Victor 5 Co here, here

Whisky 3 Co here, here

1st Btn, 1 RNZIR here

1/1st Infantry Btn here

Newlove, Bryce here

Night Vision Goggles (NVGs) here

North Vietnamese Army (NVA) here, here

D65 Engineer Btn here, here, here, here

D440 Local Force Btn here, here

Northern Ireland here, here, here, here

and SAS here, here

and surveillance here

and training here

Northern Ireland Training and Advisory Team (NITAT) here

Nui Dat here, here, here, here

Nui Din Mountains here

Nui Mao Tai Mountains here

Nui Thi Vai Mountains here, here, here

Nui Toc Thien Mountains here, here, here

O’Connor, Sgt Kevin here

Officer Cadet School (OCS) here, here

Officers’ Week here

Oman here, here; see also Sultan of Oman’s Special Forces

Oman Security Services (SIS) here

Omdurman here

operations:

Capricorn (1970) here

Chung Chung (1970) here

Nathan (1970) here

Nimrod (1980) here

Protea (1981) here

Thalib (1987) here

Otterburn here

pace-counters here, here

Papua New Guinea here

parachute jump instructor (PJI) here

parachute training here, here, here

Partnership for Peace here

patrols here, here, here, here, here

and Cambrian here

and Hong Kong here

and Northern Ireland here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

and South Africa here

People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) here

People’s Republic of China see China

Phuoc Tuy here, here

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) here

police, the here

Pollak, RMO Tom here

Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) here, here, here

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) here

Portsea here

presidential bodyguard here

Pringle, Ivor here

Qaboos bin Said, Sultan here, here, here

raids here

Rambuka, Sitiveni ‘Steve’ here, here

ration packs here

Rawlings, Maj Keith here, here

realistic grenade training here

Reliance Aviation Security (RAS) here

rendezvous (RV) here

Rhodesian Army here

‘Ride of the Veterans’ here

riots here, here

Route here; here, here, here

Royal Air Force (RAF) here

Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC) here, here

Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) here, here

Royal Australian Army Service Corps (RAASC) here

Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) here

Royal Ordnance Factories (ROF) here

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) here, here, here

rubber plantations here, here

rules of engagement (RoE) here

Rung Sat here, here

Russia here

Rype Village here

SADF see South African Defence Force

Said bin Taimur, Sultan here, here

Sandford, Sandy here

Sandline International here

Sarstoon River here

SAS see Special Air Service

security here, here

seismic intruder detector (SID) here

Seymour, Jay here

Sha Tau Kok here

Shankhill Road here, here, here

Shrimpton, Neil here

Singapore here, here, here, here, here

Singirok, Maj Gen Jerry here

Sir Galahad (ship) here

SIS see Oman Security Services

Slieve Gullion Mountain here

Smith, Murray here, here

South African Border War (1966) here, here, here

South African Defence Force (SADF) here, here

44 Parachute Bde here, here, here

South Armagh here, here

South West Africa here, here, here

South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) here, here, here, here, here

Soviet Union here, here, here, here; see also Russia

Special Air Service (SAS) here, here, here

21 SAS (‘Chelsea Chindits’) here

22 SAS here

8 Troop, B Sqn here, here

and Belize here

and counterterrorism here

and Northern Ireland here, here

and selection here, here, here

and surveillance here

Speedie, Capt Pete here

Spicer, Tim here, here

Sri Lanka here

SSF see Sultan of Oman’s Special Forces

Starlight Scope here

Starling, Col John ‘Joe’ here

Stirling, David here

Sudan here

Sudanese Army here, here

Sultan of Oman’s Special Forces (SSF) here, here, here, here

surveillance here, here, here

SWAPO see South West Africa People’s Organisation

TA see Territorial Army

al-Taashi, Abdullah here

Tactical Exercise Without Troops (TEWT) here

Talbot, Lt Col Graham here

Tamarapa, Kelly here

tanks: Centurion here

Tararua Tramping Club here

Territorial Army (TA) here

42 Bde Specialist Training Team (BSTT) here

Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry here

Terror, HMS here

Test Week here

Tet Offensive (1968) here

Toon, Ray here

treks here

‘Troubles’ see Northern Ireland

Ukraine here

Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) here, here

uniform here, here

UNITA see National Union for the Total Independence of Angola

United Nations (UN) here

United States of America (USA) here

US Army here

173rd Airborne Bde here

US Marine Corps (USMC) here

US Navy here

Van der Bergh, JN here

vehicles see armoured vehicles; Land Rovers; tanks

Viet Cong (VC) here, here, here, here, here

and casualties here, here, here

and mines here, here

and Nathan here

and Tet Offensive here

Vietnam War (1955) here, here, here, here

and Capricorn here

and land-clearing here

and Nathan here

and patrols here

and tour here

Vung Tau here, here, here

Vystral Academy here

Waiouru here

Wales here

Walsh, Brig Mike here

Waratini, Danny here, here

Warner, Andy here

Waters, Barry here

weaponry here, here, here

7.62 SLR here

claymore mines here, here

grenades here

M60 machine gun here, here

M79 grenade launcher here

M203 rifle here

MILAN anti-tank here

SLR FN rifle here

weather conditions here, here

Wellington here

Whittle, Kev here

wildlife here, here, here, here

Wilson, Harold here

Winton, Lt John here

Yamani, Sheikh here, here

Yemen here