EAST SURREY REGIMENT – TEL-EL- KEBIR

Lt. Barry Biemans – ‘C’ Coy Commander

February 1953 – September 1954

The East Surrey Regiment left Tripoli aboard the Empire Test on 2nd October 1952, arriving in Derna (via Tobruk) in November 1952. In November 1952, I attended a Messing Officers Course at Buller Camp, Gebel Maryan (near Ismailia), traveling via El Aden – a bleak spot if ever there was one. In January 1953, the battalion left Derna, boarded the ‘Devonshire’ for our trip to Egypt. I was in Egypt with the battalion for 20 months, leaving in September 1954.

Lt. Barry Biemans

1st Btn East Surrey Regt 'C' Coy

Company Platoon Commanders on L.C.T.

Embarking on HMS Devonshire

The Band of the East Surrey plays on board ship

 

The pipers of the Scots Guards welcome us to Egypt as we board the train to TEK

My tent in the Officers Line 'L' Camp, TEK

The sunflowers growing outside my tent

 

'C' Coy on Exercise - "Holding the Pasha Pass"

 

SOBRAON-YPREES BALL – 23rd April 1953
Dancing on concrete – there were 60 officers/sgts with only 12 ladies present

 

FIRES & EXPLOSIONS

“The Troops Worst Enemies Are Fire And Disease”

(No ‘Health & Safety’ Here!! – Just shorts & plimsols will do)

Fire in the Motor Cycle Shop, TEK

 

The Indicator Flap in the M.T. Yard at TEK
was set between ‘Utter Chaos’ and ‘Big Flap’ on these days
29.05 Congratulatory

The Garrison Commander, Brigadier R.R.M. Mayhew, OBE congratulates the
Officers and Men of HQ 19 Inf Bde, and attached units, for the prompt and
efficient manner in which the assisted in bringing under control the fire in the
Ordnance Store on the afternoon of 30 July 53.

A large quantity of stores were saved from certain destruction as a result of their
action which relects great credit on the discipline of the headquarters


THE THIRD DIVISION M.T. RALLY – SEPT 1953
THE TEAM FROM H.Q. 19 BRIGADE

THIS TRIUMPHANT TEAM BOUGHT BACK
TWO FIRSTS & THREE SECOND PRIZES

 

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