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Being brought up on an island meant that I had led a rather quiet, sheltered life prior to joining up. One great revelation – and a source of fear and fascination in equal measure – was the Haslar Club pay day disco and the resident platter spinner….. Continue reading Last Dance at The Haslar Club Disco As we all know. Haslar and Stonehouse are no longer Naval hospitals. They were centres that offered the highest levels of care and cleanliness to it’s service and civilian patients a like…. Continue reading Hospital closures Like the website lots of stories are probably exagerated now. It probably adds to the magic of the tale (sometimes). Here are a few from Gib – names removed for a variety of reasons but you know may recognise them? A few dits about the days in Gib when the good ideas club shutdown the Hospital to see if we could set up an MDHU at St Bernards…. Continue reading Si Harvey and a few "Dits from the DOC" A Baby Friendly Award has been presented to midwifes at The Royal Naval Hospital (RNH), Gibraltar, making it the first military hospital to win international recognition from UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund). The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association Forces Help (SSAFA FH) midwifery team, based at the hospital, were supported by the hospital commander to join forces with UNICEF UK’s Baby…. Continue reading Royal Navy Hospital is baby friendly I live in the north east now, have done for many years. I love it up here for lots of reasons, but when those winds come off of the North Sea in winter straight from Siberia I’m sometimes in danger of falling out of love with the place again, if just for a second. To warm me up psychologically I often drift back to my time on The Rock… Continue reading Rock Summers & Yorkshire Winters So here I am, fresh faced MA, escaped from Haslar via Sultan. Dan Dare Airlines delivers me and Michelle Rust to our home for the next year. Having just left Sultan filled full of stories thanks to Sam Parker and various ‘old’ sickbaymen.
Its was hot that summer in the UK but even hotter as we disembarked, first thing I notice…. Continue reading RNH Gib – Day one on the rock August 1976 I was serving in RNH Gibraltar between 1969-70 and I remember that one night on duty there was a Sub smash and HMS/M Auriga had a battery explosion in the Straights. Dr Toumy, MA Mick Barraclough LMA Soapy Watson and myself, then an MA, were sent out to board it to treat the injured…. Continue reading Gibraltar experience 
HMS Antelope took part in the Falklands War.< .p> On May 23, 1982, while Antelope was on air defence duty at the entrance to San Carlos Water, protecting a beachhead established two days earlier, she came under attack by Argentine jets…. Continue reading It could have been me…. 
So, what makes a hero? Is it a member of the public who takes on a bank robber, a man who saves a child from a burning house or a soldeir who storms a machine gun nest? Who knows – I’m sure we all have our views….. Continue reading Heroes…………………….. 
Steaming towards Ascension Island from the UK. We have now settled into the routine. There are constant exercises – obviously, very necessary. An effective crew is one that has been well drilled. The aim is to practice for all eventualities – attack, fires, damage control, men overboard, aircraft ditches etc. As you can see, an awful lot can occur on board a Royal Navy ship….. Continue reading First Aid….. | ||||||
