This is a D4 Dozer with Sapper Tam ??
from 60 Squadron in
Waddi Lussum to show what a D4 should look like in one piece
The following pictures show the remains of the D4 dozer that Sapper 'Sandy' Saunders was driving with Sapper Terry Lomas as a passenger after setting off a mine. Sandy had just refused to give Brummie Wilson & Rushton a lift over the rough bit. The two Brummies were knocked flat by the explosion, surrounded by falling lumps of metal and then had to render first aid until a CaseVac helicopter arrived. Sandy no doubt saved their lives.
The clean up afterwards
Lt Lacey, WO2 Lister, Brummie
Wilson, Sapper Staniforth & Lt Green in Wadi Lussum
Brummie Wilson, Cpl Bradley, Sgt Chadwick & Seamus McGuirl
Phil Emerson & Mooney outside 2 troop tent at Habilayn
Saracen after being towed back to Habilayn.
Jeff Ince & Rocky Price were killed in this vehicle.
Splayed wheels due to hydraulics boiling up
Habilane 1967
Right to left back row, Cpl.Taff Picton, Ernie Earnshaw, Fred Gammond,
Tom Gillick and Joe Read. Front from the right Paddy Gibson and an
unkown soldier (can you name him?)
Top Row
Dunigan,
Heaney,
Evans, Sutcliffe,
Dickson,
Davies, Emerson, Francis
, ?, Dodds, North
2nd Row ?,
Blackwood, Hornigold, Mortimer, Mclean, ?,
Weaver, ?, Stuanton,
?, ?,
Rushton
Seated Wilson,
Tarr,
Bradley, Storey, Conroy, ?, Atkins,
Perry, Turner
Front Row Hannah, Taylor, Mcguirl, Wise, York, Reeves
These are the members of 2 troop 39 Fld Sqn RE Aden with many apologies to those who I cannot put their name too as my craft is catching up with me, guys who were very good friends but I cannot recognise in the piccy like Jack Gordie, Eric Staniforth, Mick Blake, Jack Bramham etc so if you can help out it would be appreciated.
Can you name any others? If so email Neil Mclean at nma@iinet.net.au