the worst part of
my service was at RAF Gibraltar.
Beautiful place, lovely sunshine,
but incredibly claustrophobic.
Small station
Well, there was one,
It was a Royal Naval bar
And I think I went there
So there was no outlet to be oneself
on the weekends or when I was off shift,
I could go to somewhere and be,
and meet women and,
So in Gibraltar, the intensity
and the claustrophobia meant
And then I met a Wren
in Gibraltar.
Obviously,
So, we started a relationship, and,
ultimately another Wren
who my understanding at the time was
and was being interviewed
and heard
given us up to protect herself,
which is the kind of thing that people do.
So then myself,
the Wren was hauled in.
Interrogated.
The first interrogation was about
I wasn't given anything to eat or drink,
I wasn't told
So I was on my own.
They,
marched me back to my room.
They searched my room.
They threw everything on the floor,
sleeves.
Took away my letters, took away
photographs, other personal documents
and,
All right,
Sorry to go back a little bit.
That someone in this process
five hours, they
He got up and he went out and he came back
give me up, that she’d
which I had denied.
And then the questioning continues.
And then eventually I said yes,
that we were in a relationship
And that's when the whole know, you know,
I was charged then and put under arrest.
And then they went to my room and, you
And then the following day,
by the Special Investigations Branch.
And they did say to
So I asked for the senior officer
who, my understanding was, she refused.
And so I then asked for my sergeant,
I'd served with him
And he came.
And then I had to go to a room
And he was, he was quite upset, actually.
He said, you've ruined your career.
That's it. It's over.
You're about to be promoted to corporal.
I was due to be promoted
Excemplory record.
But he he stayed with me
and sat with me through another,
And the interview
was very harrowing.
