A Colin Harrington Page

Main entrance and Guardroom off the Treaty Road

Fire Station to the right and the Main Guardroom beyond.

Kasfareet village Guardroom and Gate.

This is the guardroom for the eastern gate standing adjacent to the Sweetwater Canal, with Kasfareet village over the bridge.

Another view from further inside the camp

Local workers waiting outside the east guard room. The tent lines can be seen further back.

Local Workers still waiting.

Water chatties outside of the east gate guardroom. Amazing how cool the water was when kept in the shade.

Waiting local workers seen from the guardroom.

Camp guards and related pictures.

Colin Harrington on day guard

Night guard on the ATC Tower on the airfield.

Looking through the wire at local lad and village.

AirTraffic Control Tower. From inside the wire.

A passing goods train seen from the ATC tower on the airfield.

From the roof of ATC tower , looking toward the end of the runway and the range of hills in the west.

The perimeter fence in section 3. Latrine behind sacking seen on the left.

Two guards walking the the wire in section 3 

On the perimeter wire in the middle of the night on section 1. Taken just as the searchlight swings down the wire.

Perimeter wire in section 3 under the spotlight.

Perimeter fence lit up by lamps and searchlight

Picture taken near to the previous one.

Section 7 near BDSM and taken from a searchlght tower.

Railway track on the right.

BDSM from the same spot as above. Note more aircraft fusilage scrap.

Searchlight tower on section 8

On the perimeter wire.

Unknown guard silhouetted against the wire.

1 Section guardroom through searchlight ladder.

Dayguard on section 5

Feb 14th 1955. It rained for for only the one time that I was at Kasfareet from 1953 - 1956

Armed soldiers in the YMCA courtyard. Astra cinema and RC church in the distance.

While on night guard

Kasfareet village from a searchlight tower.

From Guard Section 2 searchlight tower looking south toward the airfield.

Above is Colin`s Stitched up pano view of these two pictures taken from Guard Section 2 Searchlight Tower

Anothr view from Guard Section 2 Searchlight Tower.

View from a tower. Storm ditch sweeps away to the Sweetwater on the left.

Kasfareet village across the fields from a tower.

Again looking over cultivated field to Kasfareet village.

Above...looking toward the aircraft hangers and the air traffic control tower. In the foreground are the bayonet practise areas.


Right...Perimeter wire overlooking the railway line.

Ismailia express heading north.

A barbed wire compound in Kasfareet. But what is it and where is it ?

Saved the best shot till last.

This just about sums up being on guard duty.

Roll on the boat  !!!