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Authors: Paddy Ashdown

A Fortunate Life (75 page)


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.

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