Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 February 1974.
Can my hon. Friend name any group that deserve more than do Service men on the score of value of their work to the nation? On the subject of danger and unsocial hours, can he name any job that compares with patrolling the Bogside at midnight on Saturday or standing on the bridge of a coastal minesweeper in a Channel gale?