SERVING in the SUEZ CANAL ZONE of EGYPT until 1956
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Album of Photos taken in the Suez Canal Zone. Page 4
The names of people who supplied the photos are now being included under the photos. Photos with the initials C.D. underneath are my own,those without a name means I have probably mislaid or lost the record of who supplied it. - Sorry about that folks!
Going on guard at El Ballah. photo suplied by Ted Knell. |
El Ballah tent lines. photo suplied by Ted Knell. |
Kit laid out for inspection. photo suplied by Ted Knell. |
 Inside one of the tents. photo suplied by Ted Knell. |
View toward the Canal from El
Ballah camp.
photo supplied by Ted Knell |
 Another view towards the Canal from El Ballah camp. photo supplied by Al Webb. |
 Preparing a Jeep for an air-drop. photo supplied by Rob Jones. |
 Loading the Jeep onto the aircraft. photo supplied by Rob Jones. |
 The result when the parachute failed to open. photo supplied by Rob Jones. |
 Let me out!! photo supplied by Derek Belsey. |
 Just waiting - for demob. photo supplied by Derek Belsey. |
 REME Station Workshops contingent, led by Capt. Latimer, at the King's Birthday Parade, Fayid 1951. photo supplied by Derek Belsey. |
 Ooops !! photo supplied by Ian Rinn. |
 R.E.M.E. to the rescue. photo supplied by Ian Rinn. |
 Guarding the Radio truck. photo supplied by Geoff Wright. |
 On a scheme near
Shandur.photo supplied by Ian Rinn. |
 A brew-up in the desert - |
 - and some well earned grub.
photo supplied by Rob Jones. |
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They were supplied by John Sullivan of 50 Field Squadron R.E. who helped carry out the operation.
 Camel Corps at Bir Odieb. photo supplied by Dick Woolley. |
 Again at Bir Odieb. photo supplied by Dick Woolley. |
 Being taken for a ride at Fayid. photo supplied by Eric Todd. |
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 The RAF Camp at Bir Odieb. (On the Gulf of Suez.) photos supplied by Dick Woolley. |
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 Across the Sweet Water canal from RAF Ismailia. C.D. |
 In Ismailia town by the Sweet Water. C.D. |
 The Sweet Water Canal just north of Ismailia. |
 The troopship 'Empire Fowey'. photo supplied by numerous Vets.. |
 And the 'Empire Orwell'. photo supplied by numerous Vets.. |
Links to other pages of the Suez Canal Zone Photo Album: Click on the page number.
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More photos on the 'Now and Then' page and on the 'That Palm Tree' page.
My thanks to the Suez Veterans who supplied the photos to produce this Photo Album.
© Charlie Delta. October 2004.
Page revised: © May 2009.