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Navy House 1954
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Roy sat on the quayside at Port Said harbour. Navy House in the background. Unsure what went on there but perhaps a meeting place for officers.
Kindly contributed by Roy Jacklin
FEB 2012
Roy with wild dog 1954
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This was the 'excellent' accommodation we were
moved into. A four man tent, a door but no windows, just openings with flaps that could be lowered when it was windy, but they couldn't keep the sand out.
The dog in the picture was once a wild dog. It
wandered into our area one day, hungry and thirsty. I looked after it, and eventually it became a pet. It lived in the tent during the day but went out hunting at night.
Kindly contributed by Roy Jacklin
FEB 2012
Port Said living quarters 1954
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This was a brick built hut with a tin roof. It was
accommodation for 12 men, 10 in the room with two end bunks for NCO's. There were no washing
facilities in the building but there was another
building some distance away with wash basins and
showers. 30 yards beyond our hut there was an
outdoor range with just a wall between us and the
firing point. In the interest of safety it was decided to move us into other accommodation away from the danger zone. They said it was unsafe for us to live so close to the firing point. Was this the beginning of 'Health & Safety at work'?
Kindly contributed by Roy Jacklin
FEB 2012
Roy & Lol Brown 1954
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Lol was a mate, a Cpl like me. He lived in an adjacent tent. When I was late returning to Egypt after my leave to the UK, (I was mistakenly posted as AWOL) he was sent to the Fayid airfield to escort me back to camp. I'd been granted extra leave but my unit hadn't been told.
Kindly contributed by Roy Jacklin
FEB 2012
Alan Jones with Squadies
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Kindly contributed by Ken Mosley
April 09
Doris Mosley (nee Jones)
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Doris and mates cooked for the Naffi, She also helped Kens dad in the hotels kitchens
Kindly contributed by Ken Mosley April 09
Roy at Port Said (in his own words)
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As previously mentioned I arrived in Egypt on Xmas Eve 1954. There was a disgusting smell and haze hanging over Port Said. It was noticeable before the boat docked. It came from the Sweet Water canal which flowed on the opposite side of the road to the Suez canal. Anything went into this canal, sewage, dead animals. I've seen locals washing and drinking from it. Sometimes vehicles ended up in it after the driver fell asleep at the wheel through heat exhaustion. He would need urgent medical attention because of all the filth deposited in it.
After leaving the boat I was taken by lorry some miles up the Suez Road to our HQ at Tel El Kebir. Here I arrived pennyless as I'd not been paid on the boat and, but for the generosity of the lads stationed there, I would have spent a miserable Xmas. A few days after Xmas I was posted to our depot at Port Said where I was to become the depot chief clerk and i/c transport. Shortly after my arrival there I applied for home leave. Married men could fly free, single men had to pay. I was going home to marry and had to pay. My leave of 4 weeks was extended to 6 weeks because of a threatened rail strike. Great I thought, until I arrived back in Egypt. I was placed under escort for being AWOL. A nice welcome back. Someone had failed to inform them of my extended leave. I was exonerated. I left Egypt in Mid 1956 when the British forces had to leave Egypt. I was one of the last two RAOC bods to leave Egypt. I had two months left of my 3 years overseas tour and expected to be sent home, but no, I was posted to Cyprus. Then to put the icing on the cake I had the misfortune again to get that HMT Lancashire to carry me home.
Kindly contributed by Roy Jacklin
FEB 2012
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Sgt Major Ray Marsay serving in North Africa with some locals.
Kindly contributed by Joyce Butler (nee Grayson).
Tom Quinn & Roy Jacklin
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Roy left Lingdale school in 1948 and got his first job at Garbuttes garage in Marske, then later at Jarvis, Marske, where he spent some time operating machinery. They used to make a lot of wooden beer crates in those days. These were transported to the brewers in Shefield on a lorry owned by Jarvis. Some Lingdale and New Marske people worked there too. In October 1950 he left Jarvis and joined the regular army as a boy entrant. He was 16yrs 10 mths old then. He left the UK in 1953 and was posted overseas, where he spent the next 3 years.
Kindly contributed by Roy Jacklin
FEB 2012
Roy at Inchon Korea 1953 (in his own words)
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I was posted to Korea in Oct 1953. The journey from Liverpool to Japan took about 6 weeks. The boat was the HMT Lancashire, and anyone who sailed on her will remember it as the slowest boats in service. After spending a couple of weeks at the JRBD transit camp in Japan I was transported by boat to another transit camp on my way to Korea. The camp was at Pusan where I spent a few days before continuing my journey by train into Korea. Before leaving Pusan I visited the cemetary where our lads, killed in Korea were buried. This one, was in impeccable order, like all military cemeteries, very neat and tidy. I was posted to the Vehicle and Gun Park at Inchon where I was to become the unit clerk in charge of all correspondence pertaining to the running of the unit.
The work of the unit was to receive vehicles and guns shipped into Inchon docks from Japan, and to return damaged equipment to Japan for repair. It was a tedious and never ending job for the lads, with hardly any time off for relaxation. We lived in tented accomodation and when winter arrived, petrol stoves were in contant use to help combat the cold. It was so severe that icicles would form above each bed where the lads slept. I left Korea in October 1954 for Egypt. I had the missfortune of having to be shipped on the Lancashire again.
I dissembarked at Singapore. I was billeted in the Nee Soon transit camp before continuing my journey to Egypt. The next boat was the New Australia, a civvy liner contracted to the forces. It was an all cabin boat with crew members looking after us. Sheer luxury after the other transport we'd been carried on. The food was excellent, with table waiter service. There were service married families on board returning to the UK after overseas postings. There was to be a Christmas Day show, put on by members of the crew and forces personnel.
I along with others were to dissembark at Port Said on Xmas Eve so we would miss the show. We were not to be dissapointed though, they presented the show on the 23rd. It was a most enjoyable show, but also sad. We wouldn't be going home for some time.
Kindly contributed by Roy Jacklin
FEB 2012
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Edgar photographed with HMS Revenge colleagues in 1934
Kindly contributed by Jean Carver
Alan Pierson
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Alan pictured in the middle during 2nd world war.
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This Article was taken from the Evening Gazette 1998
Village on Guard against Hitler's invasion.
THE LADS, young and not so young, of Lingdale Home Guard were told to assemble in the siding of the old Lingdale ironstone mine one day during 1940.
from left to right
Back Row:
Wilf Dove, Herbert Dockery, Alex Holmes, Norman Dove, Ronald Coleman, Gus Coote, Bob Thompson, George Hall, don't know.
Middle Row:
Charles Holmers, don't know, Walter Barker, Frank Holmes, Wilf Neasham, Chuckie Burrows, Jack Codling, and Fred Hutton
Front Row:
Ernest Saunders, King Sanderson, Jim Peirson, Billy Hood, Robin Hood, Lieutenant Brook-Dorman, Joe Hood, Jack Dadd, Arthur Hood, Sam Cook, and Harold Moody.
Many Thanks to Alan Thompson for filling in the missing names, given on Memories Day.
Alan Pierson
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Alan pictured 2nd left, front row.
Alan lived in 18 Dixon Street, Lingdale and was a prisoner of war in a German prison camp.
Information and photograph kindly contributed by Joyce Butler (nee Grayson).
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Bob Murrell was injured when he was hit with a booby trap tree in Burma, he was brought back to the UK to Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the hospital bed pictured.
Kindly contributed by Jean Carver
April 2013
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Bob Murrell
Kindly contributed by Jean Carver
April 2013