Off topic but great pics of the era. We were always armed when out of the clean areas of course. Like HoH says, the place and time just didn't lkend itself to pictures and photos! Once you got further than 100 yards from the main roads and the rubber plantations, you were pretty well in a permanent green phosphorescent-like half light. The= recovery crew were obviously in the pineapple plantations and going through them would just rip your OG trousers to shreds in minutes and those deep monsoon ditches were full of everything you could imagine. From what was politely called 'night soil' to snakes. You might not have noticed the Bren in the cupola mount on top of the Saracen and the fact that the Scammell has sand tracks ( a rubberised set of tracks called 'hush-puppies') around the rear drive wheel set. Without them, on that ground and you'd have lost the Scammell too.
Even further off topic, some heavy vehicles such as the heavy old Saracen simply couldn't be recovered and I know of one that toppled over into a small ravine. They looked at it and from the road about 20 or so feet above, even using rightangle pulley blocks and winches, it was a lost cause............... So the still serviceable wheel station assemblies were removed/recovered as were the useful bits. The thing was destroyed with a couple of cutting charges and it's probably still there! Same as a Landrover put down in a bit of emergency/hurry in a small jungle clearing. Too dangerous to re-lift so that was just left too!
