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OR E-MAIL ME DIRECT AT:- mr.a.s.york(at)ntlworld.com
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WELCOME
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ALWYN S. YORK
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JACK GARRY
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COLIN HARRINGTON
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Picture courtesy of Jack Garry
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This website portrays images and memories of life at RAF Kasfareet, the largest RAF unit in the Suez Canal Zone which incorporated an airfield and the mighty 107 Maintenance Unit. The author and his friends who have provided the majority of the content, served there mostly within the years 1950 up to the station shut down in early 1956. The content of this site has been extended to include pictures and information relating to RAF Kasfareet in other years particularly the war years and my thaks go to Jack Garry and Jack Guard (WW2) for their old pictures and also to Jack Garry`s enthusiasm which has produced the map of the camp and led to many other items of interest being brought to light. My thanks also to Colin Harrington and John Wreglesworth for use of their extensive photo albums. Content is continually being added to the pages on this site...Enjoy 4129212 Alwyn S. York |
March Past Audio Controller for volume and on/off
Any RAF man will recognise that you listening to the Royal Air Force March Past. When you have completed the Salute ( at full attention of course ) and the music has stopped playing, click the right hand stop button above then click the arrow below to play Last Post and Evensong...Thoroughly recommended
You can switch between the 2 pieces of music at any time.
Any RAF man will recognise that you listening to the Royal Air Force March Past. When you have completed the Salute ( at full attention of course ) and the music has stopped playing, click the right hand stop button above then click the arrow below to play Last Post and Evensong...Thoroughly recommended
You can switch between the 2 pieces of music at any time.
Last Post and Evensong Audio Controller for volume and on/off
You are now listening to The Last Post and Evensong. Almost every night when I was living in the tent lines behind the YMCA, I listened to this haunting piece of music played on the local Forces Broadcasting Channel on my homemade wireless crystal set. The valve inside was procurred from prov 3 electrical stores hanger and someone found me a gash telephone handset so that I could in lay my pit listening to the radio without disturbing my mates in the tent and nearby neighbours. Later I obtained a pair of earphones in place of the phone. I only missed a closedown due to camp night guard or overnight escort duties.
July 28th 2011...message on my FORUM PAGE from Albert Hesketh who was stationed at El Hamra and played lead trumpet in the RAF MEAF Dance Band and he was specially moved when he heard The Last Post and Evensong on my website homepage as he had recorded the original piece used by the Forces Broadcasting Service and it was quite something to listen to himself playing every night across the desert at the closing of the days broadcasting. ( That`s a nice piece of military social history that..Alwyn )
You are now listening to The Last Post and Evensong. Almost every night when I was living in the tent lines behind the YMCA, I listened to this haunting piece of music played on the local Forces Broadcasting Channel on my homemade wireless crystal set. The valve inside was procurred from prov 3 electrical stores hanger and someone found me a gash telephone handset so that I could in lay my pit listening to the radio without disturbing my mates in the tent and nearby neighbours. Later I obtained a pair of earphones in place of the phone. I only missed a closedown due to camp night guard or overnight escort duties.
July 28th 2011...message on my FORUM PAGE from Albert Hesketh who was stationed at El Hamra and played lead trumpet in the RAF MEAF Dance Band and he was specially moved when he heard The Last Post and Evensong on my website homepage as he had recorded the original piece used by the Forces Broadcasting Service and it was quite something to listen to himself playing every night across the desert at the closing of the days broadcasting. ( That`s a nice piece of military social history that..Alwyn )
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