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One of the main priorities when you got to 107MU was to get your hands on a bike. As bike owners began the run down to time expired, it was essential that you made the right contacts in order to assume ownership as soon as soon as the old owner left for Blighty. I inherited my bike from Johnny Martin, but the main right to owning a bike was that you could make your own leisurely way to work and back from the PSCO hanger. The horrible alternative was to fall in and be marched to and from the hanger by the billet corporal. It was also great to join in a new sport I thought up, bicycle hockey, an exhilarating and at times dangerous sport. A game for two men who lined up on the road alongside the billet, one at each end with a tennis ball placed central. Each armed with a club, at the whistle, the two opponents pedal hard at the ball with the intent of being the first to hit the ball over the opposite baseline to win !!!
A bunch of us also liked to go out of camps for excercise and this slideshow covers a couple of those outings. The first was out on to the Treaty Road and turn left heading south. We then ventured off road and following repairs for some mechanical faults, we eventually crossed a large expanse of wasteland before getting back onto the Treaty Road and return to base. Another outing pictured here also is of a days ride up the Canal Road along the shores of the Great Bitter Lake, past Fayid and then round the top of the lake to Deversoir Point, where the Suez Canal begins the next stage up to Ismailia. We had a great day out having taken a picnic with us and we watched a convoy of ships sail in from the lake to continue their northbound jouney.
All very pleasant until the troopship Devonshire came by crammed full of squaddies from I suppose Korea heading for blighty and boy !!! did we take some verbal as they happily passed us by and us with still a long time to serve in Egypt.
A bunch of us also liked to go out of camps for excercise and this slideshow covers a couple of those outings. The first was out on to the Treaty Road and turn left heading south. We then ventured off road and following repairs for some mechanical faults, we eventually crossed a large expanse of wasteland before getting back onto the Treaty Road and return to base. Another outing pictured here also is of a days ride up the Canal Road along the shores of the Great Bitter Lake, past Fayid and then round the top of the lake to Deversoir Point, where the Suez Canal begins the next stage up to Ismailia. We had a great day out having taken a picnic with us and we watched a convoy of ships sail in from the lake to continue their northbound jouney.
All very pleasant until the troopship Devonshire came by crammed full of squaddies from I suppose Korea heading for blighty and boy !!! did we take some verbal as they happily passed us by and us with still a long time to serve in Egypt.
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I missed this picture also taken near Deversoir point |
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And this one also near Deversoir point with my 35mm Iloca Quick camera |