Patrick Massey

Many of Pat's reports stick in my memory but the most vivid came during the Six-Day War. Quoting from my recollection, his unforgettable eyewitnesser began: Boots, boots, boots. Boots littering the desert sand, discarded by soldiers to speed their flight from advancing Israelis, were the only sign of the Egyptian Army in Sinai...

Many of Pat's stories made me mutter "I would like to have written that" but it is only "boots" that pop up regularly. ■