Nigel Price

Author of The Moon Tree, and the Caspasian novels (Hodder & Stoughton) as Anthony Conway. As Nigel Price: the Harry Brown thrillers (Joffe Books). Ex-Gurkha.

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@oafc617 Still alive! Just 😂

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Mt William, East Falkland. 14 June 1982. “There is a white flag over Stanley.” Chandra Pradhan and me as a South Atlantic blizzard blows in. Alive, when so many were not. Time for a brew.

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@LindaMBayliss @falklands_utd It’s a beautiful place.

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@theluthier63 @AlastairBruce_ @Telegraph @RoyalNavy All good Tom. Hope you’re well too! 🙏

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@AlastairBruce_ @Telegraph @RoyalNavy Greetings Alastair. What an extraordinary voyage that was. I remember Robert Lawrence with his Sony boogie pack, queuing for supper in the Queens Grill, all quite surreal. But I’m sure like you, I wouldn’t hesitate to serve our country again.

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@NealRussell17 @robert_lyman @militaryhistori Arguably the greatest novel ever written.

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@robert_lyman @militaryhistori And a silver snuffbox of the “savage stuff” from Alexandria that Ponsonby had from his father, and shared with Uxbridge before the charge of the Scots Greys.

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@robert_lyman The government is a rabbit frozen in the headlights of Putin's truck. Didn't he say he had no fear of the UK which couldn't even prevent rubber boats invading the country?

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@LeDoctor @JurassicWorld @UniversalPics @Margaritaville His scores for Benjamin Button, and The Painted Veil are superb.

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@ATRightMovies To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley.

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@LoveRocket84 @Classicbritcom Yes. “What are dry goods?” “Evidently something Americans make a lot of money in.” Also the head waiter in Chariots of Fire.

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@ATRightMovies Alexandre Desplat!

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@airborne316 Thank you. It was a very strange experience! Were you with 3 Para in the Falklands?

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A memorable day. I’m somewhere there, lost in the crowd. 2/7th Gurkha Rifles at Lyemun Barracks, Hong Kong. I was the Adjutant. Our Colonel of the Regiment “Lofty” Whitehead rides in the jeep, and Steve Crowsley as ADC to the Duke for the duration of the visit. A lost world.

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Prince Philip receiving a Gurkha farewell after visiting them in Hong Kong in 1986.

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@airborne316 Hi Nick. I can well imagine the feelings on that day. Yes, a different world indeed.

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@IanbHenderson @RDPHistory Yes. Rifle regiments wore black puttees; line regiments wore khaki. And the terrible DMS boots!

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@taff854 @RDPHistory That’s correct. A total of 16, if memory serves. And my mortars were in action throughout, initially in support of the Scots Gds.

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@DanMRex @Nat_Mem_Arb @PoppyLegion Thank you. It was a memorable day. A number of people there I hadn't seen in 40 years. All of us now greyer and creakier, but in good spirits. We laid on a huge curry lunch as well. Do visit the Gurkha memorial - the Chautara - if ever there. The NMA is well worth a visit.

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On Tue 14 June 2022 @Nat_Mem_Arb we recreated the photo taken in 1982 on QE2. Sadly Gurkha Major Lalbahadur Rai, is no longer with us, so a substitute helped out, after which everyone piled in! A great day superbly org by @PoppyLegion

#FalklandsWar #Falklands40

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@LuckieEddie The soft ground also made it hard to remain accurate, as when the baseplate got too deep, it had to be moved, and thus "bedded in" and re-adjusted all over again before it could recommence fire missions.

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Best mug of tea ever. Me and my 2ic Bhim Gurung on Mt William 14 June’82 having crossed over from Tumbledown. My last working mortar back at Goat Ridge with Sgt Parsuram Limbu (also with a brew!) running the Comd Post. Soft ground was awful for mortar recoil.

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@LuckieEddie There were rocks in it. So the recoil when a bomb was fired drove the baseplate down through the soft peat, but when part of the rim met a rock, it fractured, making the whole weapon unstable and useless. All that would happen in a fraction of a second. Lost two tubes that way.