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Christmas party 1953 and many bottles have bitten the dust. Some of the guys, Chas Finnigan, Bill Bingham, Pompey Bond, Fritz and Mick Annis are some of the fraces I recognise.
Chas, Boots and Fritz ( Wal)
Fritz and Ginger
Jock and Fritz - swimmers
Lofty and Jock
Start of the RAF Egypt Cross Country Championships held at Kasfareet.
Fritz Hilsden on the water jump hurdle in the Kasfareet Athletic Championships steeplechase event. I do not know who is in the water. ( Alwyn -I recall taking part in a big station athletics event. I threw myself at the tape in the 100 yards, crashed on to my shoulder and ended up in hospital )
Fritz Hilsden with George (Ginger) Knight on leave in Kyrenia in Cyprus.
Seated left to right
Bob Farmer, Ernie Brown, Bugsy Reeves and Fritz Hilsden.
Bill Bingham driving off the 8th tee at Kasfareet golf course.
Bill Bingham, Ken Knowles (caddy) and Roger Mace playing in the Kasfareet Golf Championship.
( Alwyn - was the Kasfareet course classed as a Links course ? ) I have`nt a clue. Perhaps Roger Mace can reveal.
I like the fact that the greens were known as "browns"
Roger Mace has achieved a highly successful career in golf and latterly as an after dinner speaker. Is currently a Professional and Director of Golf at Monxton & Grateley Golf Club near Andover, Hants. Who would imagine that one of the early steps in his illustrious career was to be appointed in charge of the Kasfareet Golf Course !
Golf Championship Prize Awards Ceremony.
Left to right - Chas Finnigan, Wing Commander Stephenson, Mrs Shapcott( wife of the AOC ), Group Captain Stibbs and Mrs Stibbs.
? Simmonds misses a put on the 12th brown. Looking on, Malcolm Kenyon.
Punt across the Sweetwater Canal at Ismailia.
Ismailia railway station.
Medical Centre, Ismailia.
Ismailia Palace Hotel
From left - Eric (Jock) Geddes, Fritz Hilsden and ?
Jock Geddes and Fritz Hilsden at the Green Valley, Fayid.
Fritz Hilden showing off the camp turnoff sign on the Canal Road.
Some locals at Ismailia.
NAAFI in Kasfareet.
Kasfareet village across the Sweetwater Canal outside the perimeter fence.
At the Lido with Fritz Hilsden to the left then Ginger Knight, ? McGuire with Chas Noble to the rear.
The Canal South
Cross Country Championship
held AT RAF Kabrit
Dinger Bell going well in Lap 1
Jock Cockburn and Geoff Hawkins during Lap 1.
Warrant Officer Harrison and Geoff Hawkins leading the field during Lap 1.
Bugsy Reeves cruising in Lap 1.
Dinger Bell again.
Maurice Reeves ( Bugsy)
Mick Reed and Bugsy Reeve.
Fritz Hilsden leads Chas Noble.
Mick Reed
Warrant Officer Harrison charging for the tape.
Jock Cockburn and Geoff Hawkins racing for the finishing line.
Geoff Hawkins finishing 3rd
Warrant Officer Harrison finishing 4th
Dinger Bell finishing 5th
Jock Cockburn finishing 7th.
Alex Mcwhirter finishing 8th. Good cyclist too according to Fritz. He was a member of the Exiles cycling club.
The RAF Kasfareet winning team line up with their trophies at the Canal South Championships held at RAF Kabrit at the bottom end of the Great Bitter Lake.
left to right
Geoff Hawkins, W/O Harrison, Dinger Bell, Jock Coburn, ? , and Alex McWhirter.
These were the first six men home for Kasfareet.
Walter - on New Years Day 2004 still actively involved with his local Harrier Club. Here he is pictured in the role of turn marshall during the " Beach Steeplechase " on Takapuna Beach near Auckland with the extinct volcano, Rangitoto on the island in the background.
