From Gateshead to Gallipoli A GP goes to sea By Dr Greg Brown(91-96)
HMNZS Te Kaha with her Seasprite helicopter and a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion surveillance aircraft, on operations in the western Indian Ocean
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Life on the high seas, serving the same Queen but a different country, was not a likely trajectory for my career when I left the RGS in 1996. This year, however, I found myself as the embarked medical officer with the New Zealand frigate HMNZS Te Kaha, engaged in counter-narcotics work in the western Indian Ocean.
