RAF Kasfareet 1953-56
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      • GRAND PRIX DE KASFAREET
      • " KERMESSE " 1954
      • CANAL CIRCUIT SOUTH
      • PETE EVA`S PICS
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      • EXILES NOW PAGE 1 >
        • EXILES NOW PAGE 2
        • EXILES NOW PAGE 3
      • ROD MOFFATT-EL HAMRA
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    • LES NETHERWOOD PAGE
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      • POLICE DAY !
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LATEST NEWS​

PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT   alwynstanleyyork@gmail.com OR MESSAGE ME ON SITE FORUM

Any thing to say about Coronovirus 19  ?  Sheila and I had our first vaccine jab a week before Christmas and the second back up jab threeweeks later but we are still keeping our heads down until conditions improve .....Feb 11th 2021
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For Latest news go to the Kasfareet Files/News and Updates
You can place a general message on the Forum Page
or email me direct :- alwynstanleyyork@gmail.com
​( please note....mr.a.s.york(at)ntlworld.com is now out of date )

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ALSO INCLUDES  MUCH OF JOE SHORTLAND`S 107 MU ASSOCIATION WARTIME 
MEMORIES OF  WORLD WAR  2 . SEE  ABOVE..THE KAS FILES PAGE  / THE KAS FILES  "A"
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Here I am sitting on old Jack Guard`s settee when I visited him in Mousehole (or Mowzul) as he says.

                 WELCOME
To my website of pictures and memories of my service days in No 2 Wing P.S.C.O. at 107 MU, RAF Kasfareet, MEAF 15 in the Canal Zone when the troubles were still ongoing. New pics/info  most welcome.

FOR LATEST NEWS GO TO THE KASFAREET FILES / NEWS AND UPDATES
YOU CAN PLACE A GENERAL MESSAGE ON THE FORUM PAGE
OR  E-MAIL ME DIRECT AT:-   alwynstanleyyork@gmail.com
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ALWYN S. YORK
SITE OWNER &
WEBMASTER

JACK GARRY
KASFAREET
"TIME TEAM"
OFFICER

COLIN HARRINGTON
TECHNICAL OFFICER

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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 thanks go to Jack Garry and Jack Guard (WW2) for their old pictures and also for 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

                            
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                                           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 left 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 procured 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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