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- ISBN 9781839528514
- Dimensions: 134 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 26 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Brown Dog Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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RAF Stanley was a temporary camp in the Falkland Islands, established after the Falklands War in 1982, and, for four years until the permanent airfield was constructed at Mount Pleasant, was the base for RAF servicemen to live and work for five month postings.
Graham Logie was a welder in the RAF and spent the South Atlantic winter in 1984 providing welding, metalwork and fabrication services on the base.
His experiences varied from getting to know the islands through hill walking, and flights on Bristow helicopters and RAF aircraft, to the more sombre task of sealing coffins for air transport back to the UK.
Graham’s writing style ensures a mix of factual history as well as light-hearted observations of the life of a serviceman.
Aberdeen-born Graham Logie, was raised on the island of Islay off Scotland’s south west coast. His early working life was spent as a welder in the Royal Air Force from 1974–86.
In May 1984 he got the ‘opportunity’ to spend 5 months at RAF Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
Now retired and living near Bath in Somerset, Graham took to writing, and his first book, ‘Give Her Six’, recorded his early years living on an island, while this, his second book, relates stories and shares personal photographs of what life was like in this temporary RAF camp. Stories and photos which Graham feels should be recorded for future generations because it was like no other camp.
Graham’s ‘conversational’ style of writing is very much his own unedited words and his natural humour shows through in every chapter.
