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Poignant last letters of brave young Highland soldiers killed in the Gulf War

Updated: February 26, 2021, 11:29 am
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The Highlanders formed part of the British Army’s Desert Rats 1st Armoured Division in the tactical ‘four-day’ war, waged against a backdrop of burning oil fields.
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A young Highland soldier wrote home of the “horrors” of the Gulf War just days before he and his two teenage comrades were killed in friendly fire.
These were among the final, moving letters written by the three courageous lads to their families. ....

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Gulf War 30th anniversary: Pursuit of defeated Iraqi troops during Desert Storm was 'like shooting fish in a barrel', recalls former NE Fife MP Lord Menzies Campbell

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The pursuit of defeated Iraqi troops at the end of Operation Desert Storm 30 years ago was ‘like shooting fish in a barrel’, according to former North East Fife MP Lord Menzies Campbell.
In an exclusive interview with The Courier to mark the 30th anniversary of Desert Storm, the 79-year-old who is now Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, said a big question at the time was whether after expelling Iraqi troops from Kuwait, Allied forces should push on to take the Iraqi capital Baghdad. ....

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