Authors: Paddy Ashdown
‘
Makan salamat
’ – a welcoming feast for my irregulars on their return home after a raid. Stass, Borneo, 1963.
Jane and Tigger, Singapore, 1963.
The helicopter landing site at Stass, Borneo, 1963.
Above:
‘The Jesus Christ moment’. HMS
Anchorite
surfacing, Pulau Tioman, Malaysia, 1965.
Right:
‘Goldfish’ – riding the periscope before re-entering the submerged submarine to return home after an exercise. Pulau Tioman, 1966.
Driving Archie. Jahore Straights, Singapore, 1966.
Above:
Ah Moy, our amah, Kate and Simon (with the green bucket). Hong Kong, 1968.
Left:
Teaching Jane to fire a sub-machine gun, Stonecutters Island, Hong Kong, 1969.
Above:
With Kate, Jane and Tandy (between us) walking on the mountains of Hong Kong, 1968/9.
Right:
With my Sergeant Major (Bert Blythe), the Shankill Road, Belfast, 1970.
Left:
The ‘day job’. Signing a World Intellectual Property Organisation agreement. UN, Geneva, 1975.
Above:
With my brother, our guide, David Martin and Simon Cornwall on the summit of Mont Blanc, June 1975.
Right:
Maison Kundig (on the right), Lake Geneva, 1975.