Life in the Suez Canal Zone in the 1950s for Servicemen and their families
This web
site is intended to bring together in one place links to the many web
sites about the
experiences
of British Service families and servicemen in the Canal Zone in the
turbulent 1950s
Background Under a treaty signed in 1936 the British maintained a military presence in Egypt, in order to protect the Suez Canal, which was a vital route to the Far East for Britain. Due to Nationalist action in the mid Forties the British troops withdrew to areas adjacent to the Suez Canal, setting up encampments and airfields the
length of the canal. In October 1951 mobs attacked British families and their homes in Ismailia...
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