My Bren MKI

[Peter Laidler]

They used to wear an early form of desert boots invented by a bloke called Captain Barratt of the 8th Army,. He eventually went on to own and run a large chain of shoe shops in the UK called, strangely enough Barratts. So there it is if you have ever bought a pair of shoes from Barratts. By coincidence, this liottle story appeared in the National papers here in obituary form a few weeks ago after the man himself passed on

In Aden, the terrain was toooo tough for crepe soled desert boots so leather soled/ammo boots or the later DMS boots with woolen socks rolled down over the tops were the norm. Nylon socks were a killer of feet as they sweated like a vicar on his way to hell! Vehicle tyres off road were lifed in weeks

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