@Gareth2022 a quick piece of advice - reformat the memory card in your camera. Sometimes deleting photos in camera can cause issues with the camera losing track of what it’s taken. Doesn’t happen often, but it’s easier to be safe than sorry.
So they could pee on it, but not photograph it ? 
I don’t know if that’s actually happened to you, young Mariner, but in my experience it’s a bit of an urban myth - in 21+ years as a professional it’s never happened to me, and I think it’s unlikely with modern cameras and cards.
Unless you have been unlucky enough to buy a dodgy counterfeit memory card, maybe that’s where the story comes from?
you daft thing… the men only stood by the trees on the verges… … they didn’t climb over any fencing… 
It’s interesting that the buildings appear on Google street view and Google maps as I thought all military buildings and establishments had been blurred at the request of the French government. If you look at Toulon harbour, it’s hard to find anything that isn’t blurred. It’s the same for the military base in the centre of Bayonne. Interestingly, the Legion Etranger training base near where I live isn’t blurred, but then again, soldiers seem to have posted pictures inside the base on Google 
Was that on the Caledonian Canal?
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Not sure it was many years ago.
More likely Gare loch (Faslane, HMNB Clyde) or Holy loch
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wasted humour 
The aerial view is blurred, but not the street view.
I suspect you overestimate the typical military guard.
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Don’t worry, a little bit niche but some of us got it.
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Holy Loch, that’s going back a long, long time. Mind you, he did say film camera.
As an organisation not as individuals… 
It’s hard to prove whether it’s real or not. I first came across the idea when someone asked on the photography forum why he’d lost some of his pictures when he knew it wasn’t those he had deleted. I think it may have happened to me too, but that was a long time ago.
If it is a myth, this guy from Lexar also believes it:
I suspect it’s not an issue now and camera makers have built-in safeguards, but it’s no effort to format in camera.
Yes I always format cards in camera - I have a very strict routine I follow for the use and storage of used cards - if I need to change cards during a shoot the “exposed” ones go back into the card wallet label side down.
Then after they have been downloaded they go into a small ZipLoc bag labelled with the client name, and are not touched again until I have edited and delivered the images to the client - usually cards won;t get used for some weeks after that as I have sufficient not to need to reuse them straight away.
But I am being paid to take photos, which also implies being paid not to lose them!
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The problem, I think is that when digital cameras first came out (and for quite a few years after) the default format on the card was FAT (or some variant thereof).
It is a file format (or family of formats) which is anything but robust and easily prone to corruption - especially if the card is removed/reinserted a lot and double especially if there are any bugs in the camera firmware when it comes to handling storage.
These days odds are that the firmware is less buggy and storage media are more likely to arriv formatted with NTFS.
So, mainly myth but with a grain (sorry) of truth.
The ‘fundus’ for the moorings of my boatyard on the river Tamar, Devon, were leased from the Duchy of Cornwall [Charlie-boy, as was]. and a cove called Lord Mount Edgcombe [without an 'e]…
Both stipulated that payments for the rights to photography or filming on the river in way of the moorings of either estate were payable to the estate - on top of the inevitable rights to coal, oil, minerals and any other substance producing income from the fundus.
‘To those that have shall be given. To those that have not shall be taken, even that which they have’
T’was ever thus.
Officials can get a little paranoid at times, even if we know and can understand the rationale behind it. Earlier this year I took a photo of my daughter waving goodbye to us at Bordeaux airport from the other side of security and I was quickly told to stop by a security official. A few months later at La Rochelle I asked the security person if I could take a photo under the same circumstances and he replied “Why not?”
The real answer is that if there had been a security incident he would have been in hot water, as well as eternally regretting his advice. Sadly we live in a world where overcaution is the sensible position, even when we all know it is over the top. And ineffective in all likelihood, as people with ill intent can always find ways to surreptitiously film sensitive sites, but it may deter more amateur attempts.
Many years ago in Santos, where they had just had a military coup, a soldier did that to me in the street.
And I didn’t even have a camera. 
One thing I will not do, is pee on a fence, it might be electrified. 
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