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  • Qassim, General Abdul,
    1
  • Quant, Mary,
    1
  • Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANCs),
    1
  • Queen Mary,
    1
  • Queen’s birthday party,
    1
  • Question Time,
    1
  • Rabin, Yitzhak,
    1
  • Radfan mountains, Aden,
    1
  • Radley, Sally,
    1
  • Radley, Steve,
    1
  • Radio Malt,
    1
  • Radosavljević, Sandra,
    1
  • RAF,
    1
  • RAF Abingdon,
    1
  • RAF Chivenor,
    1
  • RAF Machrihanish,
    1
  • Rahman, Luthfur,
    1
  • Raikes, Canon Myles,
    1
  • Rame Head,
    1
  • Rathfriland,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • rattan,
    1
  • Rawalpindi,
    1
  • Rectory Printing Society,
    1
  • Red Lion
    pub, Westminster,
    1
  • Reeve, Mr,
    1
  • Reform Club,
    1
    ,
    2
  • religion,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Rendel, David,
    1
  • Rennard, Chris,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Republika Srpska,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Repulse Bay,
    1
  • Ribble Valley,
    1
  • Rice, Condoleezza,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Richmond, Yorkshire,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Ricketts, Sir Peter,
    1
  • Rifkind, Malcolm,
    1
  • Robertson, George,
    1
  • ‘Rock Around the Clock’ (Bill Haley and the Comets),
    1
  • Rodgers, Bill,
    1
  • Rogers, Budge,
    1
  • Rolling Stones,
    1
  • Rolls, Ricky,
    1
  • Roman hill forts,
    1
  • Rose and Crown pub,
    1
  • Ross, Stephen,
    1
  • Rouen Cathedral,
    1
  • Rowntree Trust,
    1
  • Royal Aeronautical College,
    1
  • Royal Engineers,
    1
  • Royal Indian Army Service Corps,
    1
  • Royal Marines
    see also
    SBS appointed officer,
    1
    • Ashdown leaves,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Ashdown’s pledge,
      1
    • ballons d’essai,
      1
    • being rude at breakfast,
      1
    • berets,
      1
    • drill sergeants,
      1
    • joins,
      1
      ,
      2
    • migraines,
      1
    • naval terminology,
      1
    • nightcraft techniques,
      1
    • ‘Paddy’ Ashdown,
      1
    • ‘Ram’ Seeger,
      1
    • specialist wings,
      1
    • sense of confidence and,
      1
    • units,
      1
    • Walter Walker and,
      1
    • weapons training,
      1
  • Royal Naval College, Dartmouth,
    1
  • Royal Navy,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Royal Navy Mark
    1
  • torpedoes,
    1
  • Royden Court,
    1
  • Rugova, Ibrahim,
    1
  • Russell, Jane,
    1
  • Russell, Janet,
    1
  • Russia,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Sabah,
    1
  • Sai Wan listening station,
    1
  • Sainsbury, David,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Saint-Gervais-les-Bains,
    1
  • Sam Browne belts,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Sanders, Adrian,
    1
  • Sandhurst,
    1
  • Sarajevo,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • Bosnian Serb assault repulsed,
      1
    • carsia,
      1
    • email selection from,
      1
    • Iraq and,
      1
    • Karadžić,
      1
    • main street,
      1
    • plaque for 1st World War assassination,
      1
    • street life,
      1
  • Sarajevo Haggadah,
    1
  • Sarawak,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Sardeeyah,
    1
  • Sarkozy, Nicholas,
    1
  • SAS,
    1
  • Sava, Father,
    1
  • Sava River,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Savoie,
    1
  • SBS (Special Boat Section, Royal Marines),
    1
    • see also
      Royal Marines Blondie Haslar,
      1
    • decides to join,
      1
    • No. 2 SBS,
      1
    • operation procedures,
      1
    • radicalised by,
      1
    • radio sets,
      1
    • ‘Ram’ Seeger,
      1
    • recommended for,
      1
    • Singapore,
      1
    • skills and courage of,
      1
    • training course,
      1
      ,
      2
    • underwater work,
      1
  • School Cadet Force,
    1
  • School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
    1
  • Scott Report,
    1
  • Screaming Lord Sutch,
    1
  • SDP
    • creation of,
      1
    • ‘dead parrot’ draft leak,
      1
    • Liberal deal with,
      1
    • merger,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • modern image of,
      1
    • New Labour and,
      1
    • 1985 Conference,
      1
    • Richmond,
      1
    • votes for merger,
      1
      ,
      2
  • sea snakes,
    1
  • secretaries,
    1
  • Sedgefield,
    1
  • Seeger, ‘Ram’,
    1
  • Serbia,
    1
    ,
    2
    • attacks on Kosovars,
      1
    • Bosnian Serbs,
      1
    • effect of US bombing on,
      1
    • flashpoint,
      1
    • Mladić,
      1
    • mooted invasion,
      1
    • Sarajevo offensive,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Setkić, Ahmed,
    1
  • Setkić, Sebiŝa,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Seventh Submarine Squadron,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Shakespeare, William,
    1
  • Shanghai,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Shankhill Road,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • sharks,
    1
  • Sharp, Richard,
    1
  • Shaw, George Bernard,
    1
    ,
    2
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    3
  • Sheffield,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Shoesmith, Colour Sergeant,
    1
    ,
    2
  • shooting,
    1
  • Sikorsky,
    1
  • Silicon Valley,
    1
  • Simla,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Singapore Christmas in,
    1
    • geckoes alarm service wives,
      1
    • Jane falls ill,
      1
    • Pulau Tioman,
      1
    • Seventh Submarine Squadron,
      1
    • ship attack exercise incident,
      1
    • Simon born,
      1
    • Special Boat Units,
      1
  • Sirius computers,
    1
  • skiing,
    1
  • Skinner, Quentin,
    1
  • Skopje,
    1
  • Slim, Field Marshal ‘Bill’,
    1
  • Slipman, Sue,
    1
  • Sloss, Bob,
    1
  • Slovenia,
    1
  • SLR 7.62 rifles,
    1
  • Smith, Cyril,
    1
  • Smith, John,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Smith, Sir Rupert,
    1
  • smuggling,
    1
  • Snitterfield, Vicar of,
    1
  • SOE (Special Operations Executives),
    1
  • Sofer, Anne,
    1
  • Solana, Javier,
    1
    ,
    2
  • soldier ants,
    1
  • Somerset County Council,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Somerset Levels,
    1
  • Somerton,
    1
  • South Eastern Railways,
    1
  • South Somerset District Council,
    1
  • Spanish Armada,
    1
  • Spanish Civil War,
    1
  • Speakman, Nick,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Special Branch,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Special Forces,
    1
  • Spectator,
    1
  • Spitfires,
    1
  • Spitting Image,
    1
  • Split,
    1
  • split infinitives,
    1
  • sport,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Spurling, Neville,
    1
  • Srebrenica,
    1
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    2
    ,
    3
  • St Cergue,
    1
  • St Mary the Virgin, Norton sub Hamdon,
    1
  • St Pancras Station,
    1
  • Stabilisation Force (SFOR),
    1
  • Standard Ten motor cars,
    1
  • Star Ferry terminal,
    1
  • START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks),
    1
    ,
    2
  • ‘Starting the Journey’ (Paddy Ashdown),
    1
  • Stass,
    1
    ,
    2
  • State Opera, Vienna,
    1
  • Staunton, Sir George (great-grand-uncle),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Steel, David appoints Ashdown,
    1
    • Ashdown embarrasses,
      1
    • Ashdown supported by,
      1
      ,
      2
    • attacked by other Liberal MPs,
      1
    • David Owen and,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • first Party Conference as leader,
      1
    • freeze on nuclear deployment called for,
      1
      ,
      2
    • a good former leader,
      1
    • Gulf War,
      1
    • Kate Ashdown and,
      1
    • Lib-Lab Pact,
      1
    • naming the Liberal Democrats,
      1
    • 1983 election campaign,
      1
    • persuades Beith to join Ashdown,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Richard Holme,
      1
    • sidelines Roy Jenkins,
      1
    • stands down,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
  • Steiner, George,
    1
  • Stonecutter Island,
    1
  • Stour, River,
    1
  • Strachey, Sir Edward,
    1
  • Strangford Lough,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Strathaird,
    SS,
    1
  • Straw, Jack,
    1
  • Suharto, General,
    1
  • Sukarno, General,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Sultan of Brunei,
    1
  • Sulzberger, Cy,
    1
  • Sun,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Sung dynasty,
    1
  • survival,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Suva Reka,
    1
  • Swanton, Miss,
    1
  • Swimmer Canoeist Breathing Apparatus (SCBA),
    1
  • Swimmer Canoeists Class Three (SC3s),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs),
    1
  • Switzerland,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Swords and Ploughshares:
    Bringing Peace to the 21st
    Century
    (Paddy Ashdown),
    1
  • Symes, Fred,
    1
  • Szechuan food,
    1

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