Scots diplomat bolted from best pals wedding - to help evacuate Brits from Sudan warzone
A Scots diplomat has told how he was scrambled to join the UK Government’s evacuation of Brits fleeing war-torn Sudan while at his best friend’s wedding. Glasgow-born
“It slightly dampened my ability to party quite as hard as my wife and I had hoped because I needed to get on the first flight the next morning. “If I’d been on call I wouldn’t have been drinking at all but I didn’t mind having to forgo some of the merriment because I was excited to get my first deployment. I feel proud to have been part of the longest and largest evacuation of any Western country.”
“You had to try and disconnect from what you were seeing and plough on because our task was to get as many people out as possible before the shaky ceasefire collapsed. Lots of the people I supported had gone through horrendous ordeals just to get to the airbase and had suffered shrapnel or gunshot wounds.
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