THE  SUEZ  CANAL  ZONE  of  EGYPT  1950 - 1955

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Album of Photos taken in the Canal Zone.  Page 4

Going on guard at El Ballah.

El Ballah tent lines.

Kit laid out for inspection.

Inside one of the tents.

Two views toward the Canal from El Ballah camp.

Preparing a Jeep for an air-drop.

Loading the Jeep onto the aircraft.

The result when the parachute failed to open.

Let me out!!

Just waiting - for demob.

REME Station Workshops contingent, led by Capt. Latimer, at the King's Birthday Parade, Fayid 1951.

Ooops !!

R.E.M.E. to the rescue.

Guarding the Radio truck.

On a scheme near Shandur.

A brew-up in the desert  - and some well earned grub.

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The six photos above were taken during the clearing of the village near to Numbers 3 & 4 Filtration Plants, just outside Suez.
They were supplied by a member of 50 Field Squadron R.E. who helped carry out the operation.

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Camel Corps at Bir Odieb.

Again at Bir Odieb.

Being taken for a ride at Fayid.

The RAF Camp at Bir Odieb. (On the Gulf of Suez.)

Across the Sweet Water canal from RAF Ismailia.

In Ismailia town by the Sweet Water.

The Sweet Water Canal just north of Ismailia.

The troopship 'Empire Fowey'.

And the 'Empire Orwell.'

Links to other pages of the Suez Canal Zone Photo Album: Click on the page number.
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Also 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: © February 2007.