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Name
 William Stuart Eachus
E-mail
 harrye333*aol.com
Unit
 REME
Stationed at
 Station Workshops,  Fayid
Service Number
 22489545
Now living in
 Manchester, England
Comments
 Anyone out there?


Name
 George Easton
E-mail
 george*monkeyhangers.com
Unit
 Royal Air Force
Stationed at
 El Firdan
Service Number
 4102738
Now living in
 Ontario, Canada
Comments
 Keep up the good work on behalf of the all but forgotten service men and women who served in the Suez Canal Zone.


Name
Alastair (Sandy) Eaton
E-mail
eatonofaylesbury*tinyworld.co.uk
Unit
Royal Artillery
Stationed at
Moascar & Fayid
Service Number
22888027
Now living in
Aylesbury, Bucks.
Comments
 It was an experience I will never forget and I made some good friends - I still keep in touch with some but would always like to hear from more; especially those who were in CB Troop, HQRA, MELF 27! 
 

Name
 Tom Ebert
E-mail
 Suez*tamlydgate.plus.com
Unit
 Royal Air Force
Stationed at
 RAF Ismailia
Service Number
 2544876
Now living in
 England
Comments
 Served with TCM Signal Unit, RAF Ismailia.

 
Name
John Eden
E-mail
John.Eden*tesco.net
Unit
Royal Air Force
Stationed at
Deversoir, Kasfareet and then Abyad.
Service Number
2705328
Now living in
Retired in Sussex
Comments
 20 months enforced misery in the Canal Zone was an un-necessary and totally useless waste of my time and life at an age when all experience should have added value to my future.


Name
 Archibald Cumming Edgar
E-mail
 br_edgar*bigpond.com.au
Unit
 219 Bty 80th LAA
Stationed at
 Moascar Garrison
Service Number
 22601419
Now living in
 NSW, Australia
Comments
 I would like anyone who remembers me to get in touch, especially Harry Edwards, Ben Moore, Jerry Clay and Mike Martin.


Name
 Charlie Edge
E-mail
 charles.edge*hotmail.co.uk
Unit
 30 LAA  R.A.F. Regiment
Stationed at
 RAF Abu Sueir
Service Number
 4063989
Now living in
 Liversedge,  West Yorkshire
Comments
 I spent the night of my 19th birthday in a bren pit on guard at the main gate.


Name
 Stan Edmenson
E-mail
 edmenson558*btinternet.com
Unit
 RAOC    BVD
Stationed at
 BVD 14 shed, Tel el Kebir
Service Number
 22632994
Now living in
 Didsbury, Manchester
Comments
 We made the best of our posting all the boys where good pals, I wish I was able to see them all. Please get in touch, Stan.   maassalama effendi.


Name
 Brian Edwards
E-mail
 ??    (Let me have your e-mail address Brian or nobody will be able to contact you.)
Unit
 Royal Air Force
Stationed at
 114 Sqdn.  RAF Kabrit
Service Number
 2430993
Now living in
 Hertfordshire
Comments
 I would like to hear from anyone who worked on Valettas, or played in the Station Band.


Name
 Eddie Edwards
E-mail
 billandfrankie*btopenworld.com
Unit
 Guards Ind Para Coy
Stationed at
 Ismailia and Lake Timsah
Service Number
 22216522
Now living in
 Mold, Flintshire
Comments
 I was a Piper to the Gds Para Coy. 1952-1959. And piped the coy into Port Said Nov 1956 from a Tank Landing Craft.


Name
 Jeff Edwards
E-mail
 sherlockjeff*talktalk.net
Unit
 R.E. Postal Unit
Stationed at
 Port Said  and  Tel el Kebir
Service Number
 22575640
Now living in
 Colchester, Essex
Comments
 Would like to hear from anyone who served from 1951 to 1953


Name
 Ken  Edwards  (Taffy)
E-mail
 kenneth.edwards*blueyonder.co.uk
Unit
 4 R.T.R.   Shandur
Stationed at
 Att.  GHQ Fayid
Service Number
 22787771
Now living in
 Crawley, England
Comments
 Caterick camp 1951, posted to C Sqd. 4th R.T.R  Shandur. (M.V. Charlton Star) Transfered to GHQ 1952. "The best posting ever". G.H.Q. Staff Excused Duties.  Demobbed 1954.

 
Name
Joseph Terence Egan
E-mail
JTEgans*aol.com
Unit
1st Batallion Irish Guards
Stationed at
Abu Sultan
Service Number
22216646
Now living in
Ramsbottom, Lancashire
Comments
 It has been a long standing source of disappointment and a showing of lack of appreciation by the then current government for the service given by personnel in the Canal Zone that no medals were awarded, we were the forgotten army.


Name
 Alan Ekins
E-mail
 --
Unit
 Royal Air Force
Stationed at
 RAF Deversoir
Service Number
 4094091
Now living in
 Chester
Comments
 Joined as clerk org. transfererd to signals.  My C.O was W.Cdr Langlois. I organised the shows & lighting.  Played hockey for  the station.
Loved going to Famagusta in Cyprus for holidays.

 
Name
Trevor Elam
E-mail
trevor.elam*talk21.com
Unit
RAF, No 6 Squadron
Stationed at
Habbanya, Iraq:  Abu Sueir, Egypt:  Nicosia, Cyprus:  Sharjah, Persian Gulf:  Mafraq, Jordan.
Service Number
2503797
Now living in
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Comments
 A very professional site. Pity about the abuse from people who did not experience it all.


Name
 Bill Elder
E-mail
 W.N.Elder*tiscali.co.uk
Unit
  128. MU.  R.A.F.  Fire Section.
Stationed at
 Top Camp. Abu-Sultan
Service Number
 4074836
Now living in
 Dundee. Scotland
Comments
 Miss the dips down in the Deversoir Lido.


Name
 Tom Eldridge
E-mail
 mimidadad*aol.com
Unit
 3rd Bn. Coldstream Guards
Stationed at
 Tel el Kebir  and  Fanara
Service Number
 2670639
Now living in
 Sterling,  Virginia, U.S.A.
Comments
 I was R.E.M.E. attached to 3rd Bn, I had been Guardsman but transferred in Tripoli a few months before we flew to Egypt in Nov 1951.
I left in May 1953 for demob. Would like to hear from anyone.


Name
 Jim [Stan] Eliot
E-mail
 -
Unit
 34 LAA Sqdn. RAF Regiment
Stationed at
 RAF El Hamra and   RAF Kasfareet
Service Number
Now living in
 Norfolk
Comments
 Enjoyed my stay in Egypt, and my squadron, good exercises in the Libyan desert and the Sinai desert.

 
Name
John Elliott
E-mail
LizaandJohn*compuserve.com
Unit
9th Ind. Parachute Field Squadron, R.E.
Stationed at
Fayid  and Moascar [ Ismailia ]
Service Number
19128922
Now living in
Orpington, Kent.
Comments
 I served in the Canal Zone from 1951 untill 1954 with 16 Indep Para Bde.and was wounded by an Egyptian Soldier armed with a bayonet. When will this or any Government admit to the privations and dangers that we faced and make a retrospective award of The General Service Medal???

 
Name
Frank Ellis
E-mail
frank*ellis-tw.fsnet.co.uk
Unit
The Life Guards
Stationed at
Fayid  and Moascar.
Service Number
22205837
Now living in
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Comments
 Memory is failing and my records are scant, which is why I cannot now be sure about where I was located in the Canal Zone - but I am sure that I was there!


Name
 H  W  Ellis
E-mail
 ellis_h*hotmail.co.uk
Unit
 Welsh Guards
Stationed at
 Bde HQ El Ballah  and  Moascar
Service Number
 22217448
Now living in
 Swansea. Retired.
Comments
 Would like to contact anyone who served with me in Egypt.


Name
 Paul Emmett
E-mail
 warhawka10*yahoo.com
Unit
 R.A.O.C.
Stationed at
 Tel el Kebir
Service Number
 ---
Now living in
 Mobile, Alabama, USA
Comments
 I served from 1950-52. Please contact my son via the above email and he will get the message to me.


Name
 Derek Emsley
E-mail
 derek*emsley9512.freeserve.co.uk
Unit
 169 Railway Workshop Squadron.  R.E.
Stationed at
 Suez
Service Number
 19151181
Now living in
 Kingussie, Inverness
Comments
 I served from 1947-1949 on "active service."  I do not understand the 1951 separation. We lost one dead in that period.  Why no recognition for us?

 
Name
John Edward Etheridge
E-mail
john.appelbee*ntlworld.com
Unit
Royal Air Force, 651 A.O.P.
Stationed at
R.A.F. Ismailia
Service Number
4110388
Now living in
Burbage, Leicestershire.
Comments
 I was stationed with 651 AOP Squadron (Royal Artilary) from late 1953 to 1956 and then transfered to Cyprus with the Squadron. Throughout this period we lived in tented accomodation located in small camp site in isolation on the fringe of the airfield. Facilities for hygiene, meals and toilets were primative to say the least. Guard duties were every three nights, we had to provide our own camp site guard and were included on the guard rota for RAF Ismailia. Our Auster aircraft were used for desert patrols, anti-terrorist activities and in these roles the observer would man a bren gun and fire through the open door way rather like the modern helicopter gun ships. We were often ordered to carry out the observer/rear gunner role.


Name
 Bernard  Evans
E-mail
 bernardhevans*tiscali.co.uk
Unit
 R.A.O.C.
Stationed at
 TS Coy. 10 BOD.  Geneifa
Service Number
 22743008
Now living in
 Portsmouth, Hants.
Comments


Name
 Brian Evans  (EVO)
E-mail
 contactgarry*msn.com
Unit
 R.A.O.C. 9 BAD.  No1 Platoon
Stationed at
 Abu Sultan
Service Number
 -
Now living in
 Birmingham.
Comments
 Abu Sultan 1953 - 1955.  I would like anyone who remembers me to get in contact.


Name
 Eric Evans
E-mail
 hairyneil*hotmail.com
Unit
 RAF
Stationed at
 Station MT Section, RAF Ismailia and El Firdan (751 SU)
Service Number
 4097589
Now living in
 Aberystwyth, Wales
Comments

 
Name
George Evans
E-mail
gevans613*aol.com
Unit
HQ 51 Infantry Brigade  (I was seconded from the Gloucestershire Regt.)
Stationed at
Tel el Kebir for a year - then Fayid.
Service Number
22819032
Now living in
Lancashire
Comments
 It's about time we were recognised for what we did and what we had to put up with.


Name
 H Richard Evans
E-mail
 Howardre450*aol.com
Unit
 HQ 1st Infantry Division
Stationed at
 Moascar Garrison and Fayid
Service Number
 22392560
Now living in
 Hereford.
Comments
 Member of Advance Party from HQ 1st. Inf. Div. from Tripoli, Libya to the Canal Zone on 26 Oct 1951.  HQ 1st. Inf. Div. never learned to cope with National Servicemen.  They were poorly treated and served under what were generally mediocre officers and NCOs .


Name
 Lewis (Bryn) Evans
E-mail
 landsborough.1*btinternet.com
Unit
 No.1 RMP Dog Company
Stationed at
 Geneifa, El Kirsh and Tel el Kebir
Service Number
 22187391
Now living in
 England
Comments
 I have travelled the World as a businessman for close on 50 years, but I still look back at my eighteen months in the Canal Zone as one of the best times of my
life.  I learnt  respect, suffered some hardships (including swimming and playing cricket for the Corps) but more important learnt the true value of companionship.
My thanks to Dick Woolley for securing me a small place in history.
(See Bryn's article in the 'History and Recollections' section of the website. DW)

 
Name
Roy Evison
E-mail
r.evison*ntlworld.com
Unit
Royal Air Force
Stationed at
HQ 205 Group, Fayid
Service Number
4103869
Now living in
North Lincolnshire
Comments

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