Remembering those who have lost their lives while serving with the sub-unit.
Sapper Terry F Alchin
4 June 1967
In March 1967, 60 Field Squadron Royal Engineers deployed to Aden tasked with support to the infantry and road construction projects. While half of 1 Troop was employed at Habilain near Dhala building a water tank, on 4 June Sapper T F Allchin aged 26 was killed by a terrorist booby-trap in a stores tent. Taff C, a LCpl in 1 Troop remembers:
"I was one of Terry's best mates, having first met at Gillingham barracks when we were both on support troop 1965 or 66. Before going to Aden a couple of us, Mick Jones, Geordie Mckenzie and me, left some of our gear in his married quarters. He was a smashing lad and I always remember him every June, the month he was killed. Half of No.1 troop were sent up to Dhala to build a water tank, (the half I was in) and he was killed while we were up there. I can still remember Lt. Freeman ,No. 1 Troop's officer, coming up to tell us. A few weeks later we were back and working at the exact spot where it happened."
"I was one of Terry's best mates, having first met at Gillingham barracks when we were both on support troop 1965 or 66. Before going to Aden a couple of us, Mick Jones, Geordie Mckenzie and me, left some of our gear in his married quarters. He was a smashing lad and I always remember him every June, the month he was killed. Half of No.1 troop were sent up to Dhala to build a water tank, (the half I was in) and he was killed while we were up there. I can still remember Lt. Freeman ,No. 1 Troop's officer, coming up to tell us. A few weeks later we were back and working at the exact spot where it happened."