SERVING in the SUEZ CANAL ZONE of EGYPT until 1956

Were you in any way connected with the British Armed Forces serving in the Suez Canal Zone ?

Do any of the following place names bring back memories to you ?

Ismailia - Moascar - Tel el Kebir - Fayid - Fanara - Kasfareet - El Firdan - Shallufa - Abu Sueir - Gebel Maryam
Geneifa - Abu Sultan - El Hamra - Deversoir - Kabrit - El Ballah - Shandur - Abyad - El Kirsh - Adabiya
Qassasin - Kilo 99 - El Zeitiya - and of course, Port Said - Port Fouad - Suez - Port Tewfiq

Welcome to this Suez Canal Zone website, which is not a boring account of my time in the Canal Zone whilst serving
my two and a half years out there with the RAF, nor is it planned to rival the Suez Canal Zone chapter of the Britain's
Small Wars website or the Suez Veterans Association's official site, but be more of a companion to them. It is hoped
the contents will be of interest, not only to those who served in the Canal Zone but to anyone who has a curiosity of that
area. The main map of the Canal Zone and the Roll of Honour pages are reproduced on this site with permission of the
BSW (Suez Canal Zone) website editors. There are now over 500 photos in the 'Photo Album' pages, a few are my
own, all the others have been submitted for inclusion by Suez Veterans who have visited the site and there are some
good ones of that time in Egypt. As ideas develop and progress is made there will be more pages and photos added.
I thank you for paying a visit to the site and would appreciate you coming back occasionally to see what is new.
Please tell your colleagues about it, it is hoped there will always be something of interest for Suez Canal Zone Veterans,
their families and friends. And please let me know what you think about the site, or have any suggestions to make.

If you find any mistakes on the site, or links that don't work, I will not be upset if you tell me about them.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

I regret that various personal problems have meant that for quite a while I could only do very little work on the website . Unfortunately I have now decided to close the ‘Photo Album’ pages and am not able to accept any more photos for inclusion. I already have a large number of photos in hand which I have not yet been able to include, and my apologies and thanks go to the people who have sent them. The photo pages that are on the site will stay but will not be added to. This has been a hard decision to make as I know the photo
pages are very popular and I have enjoyed maintaining them.

During the past few weeks I have received e-mails which, ashamedly, some of them I have not been able to reply to. Again I give my apologies to the senders. I will try to keep the ‘Where Are You Now’ and the ‘Guest Book’ pages open but it may take longer for new entries to be included. I am very pleased these pages have managed to help bring some old pals into contact with each other again, sometimes after about fifty years.

When I started the website in October 2004 I had the time, energy and ability to maintain it as often as needed, very often every day,
but in the last six years conditions have changed and I can no longer claim these conditions to the full.

I would like to thank: -
Everyone who have sent me material and photos for the site.
The people who have sent entries for the ‘Where Now’ and ‘Guest Book’ pages.
The large number of people who have e-mailed me with appreciation of the site, suggestions and queries.
Also thank you for your visits to the site, I hope you found it interesting.

The site will remain available as it is for as long as possible and hopefully, maybe, sometime in the future I will be able to start working on it again, in the meantime my regards and best wishes to everyone.

Charlie Delta.
3rd June 2010

To e-mail me, please click on the scroll below.

The average maximum temperature in Ismailia during the week ending - 29 May 2010 was: 91.2°f (32.8°c)

Links to the Website pages.
If you are viewing this website on a widescreen monitor, some items on the pages may be displayed in a different arrangement to how they are intended.

Suez Canal Zone Medal ( Criteria, application addresses etc.)

Canal Zone Roll of Honour ( 1951 - 1955.)

Royal Air Force (Egypt) Memorial. ( St Clement Danes Church, London.)

Suez Veterans Memorial ( National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire. )

The Armed Forces Memorial ( National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire. )

Suez Canal Zone Map ( Showing some of the British military camps, the RAF airfields and some towns and villages.)

Canal Zone Photo Album
Pages: 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10 || 11 || 12 || 13 || 14 || 15 || 16 || 17 || 18 || 19 || 20 || 21 ||

Photo Album Acknowledgements For main Photo Album. Names added when required.

Are you on this photo? Or do you recognise anyone who is?

'Now and Then' A mixture of photographs taken in the Canal Zone during the early 1950s and in 2004.

That Palm Tree Photos of Suez Vets taken by that Palm Tree at the Old Vic Lido, Fayid.

Cairo and the Pyramids. A page of photos taken when the city was 'in-bounds' and visits were allowed.

Odd Bits Miscellaneous Canal Zone pieces that don't come under any special category.

Views, maps and plans of Camps in the Canal Zone

Where are you now Mate? (Pal, Friend, Chum, Mucker, Oppo?) Search for your old pals.

Guest Book Please have a look at the names and comments in the Guest Book.
Submitting your own name and your comments about the website would be appreciated. Thank you.

A little bit of Humour Equivalent Ranks of the Armed Forces

Links to other websites.

Please note: There is a copyright © on many of the items and photographs on this site,
either held by the webmaster or the suppliers of the material.
Please do not copy or re-produce any of the contents without permission.

To all RAMC, QARANC, RADC, RASC who served at The BRITISH MILITARY HOSPITAL, FAYID 1950 - 1956.
Bill Lowe, ex Cpl RAMC (1954 - 1956), has contact names addresses and telephone numbers of people who served
at the BMH Fayid 1950 - 1956. This has resulted from the Reunion in Derby 15th and 16th September 2007.
Please contact Bill Lowe for "LOST PALS", and to add your own contact address and telephone number.

Telephone Bill on 0191- 584- 6848 or e-mail him at: wgl70@yahoo.co.uk

When contacting Bill, please mention you saw the notice on this website.
This notice added 08 October. '07

I am flying the flag for Derbyshire.

The Derbyshire Flag.

I know this has no connection with the Suez Canal Zone, but I am a Derbyshire lad and proud of it.
I was born and bred in the County and still live here amongst the Derbyshire Dales, - so I am showing our County flag.

Website first produced: October 2004. Updates and additions are made on a regular basis.