Return to Nee Soon

From Kim McGrath, Aussie Gunner

Hi Folks,
I have just been back to Singapore after 35 years and have seen the changes! I managed to get an escorted tour of the Nee Soon Camp by Warrant Officer James Chua who is the Complex Sergeant Major.
-----Jim has been in the Singapore Army for 31 years and will retire in about 4 more. Panjab Square is now a parking lot with trees and a lot of trucks under tarps.
-----I took about another 23 photos in the area but was limited inside the camp, obviously for security reasons and that I didn't want to offend my host. I have sent the remainder of the photographs to Graham Hampton who is the webmaster for the Australian Artillery Association website at: www.australianartilleryassociation.com/home_page.htm for posting on the site. I imagine that it will take him a little while to organise this.
-----Singapore has, naturally, changed greatly and is now a modern city which has lost a lot of the Asian old world charm and aromas! Bugis Street is now like Paddy's Markets - alas! As they say: "Time and Tide....."

Ubique,
Kim

PS: Just an observation - this time when I arrived back home with QANTAS I didn't weigh 11.5 stone!