THIRTY YEARS ago yesterday, I and a lot more soldiers were streaming across various breaches in the southern Iraqi defence system at the start of the ground offensive to liberate Kuwait.
Now, with the passage of years and the release of documents, we now know that it was less about the liberation of Kuwait and her people’s and more to do with the West having “user-friendly” people in charge of oil production, but that is not what this letter is about.
So 30 years ago I was part of Dressing Station 1 Alpha, 1 Armoured Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. We had deployed to the Gulf with the rest of the 7th Armoured Brigade some four or five months earlier.