3rd Btn GRENADIER GUARDS 1952-54

As Remembered By Thomas Holland

 

 

Deversoir Camp, Blanco/Wash Points

 

My Bed Space

 

My Tent 5th Feb 1953

 

Our Sign on edge of Suez

 

MTPark, Deversoir

 

2 Coy Mail Call Deversoir

Me, Barry Stokes, Alf Rennelly, (?) Major &
(?) Schofield

Dave Wright, George Phillips, Millington & Me

Me, Ricky Drew and Harry

 

Our tent fire at Aquaba

 

2 Coy Grenadier Guards on leave in Jerusalem

 

Escort car for King Hussein on way to Jerusalem

 

The Lost City of Petra taken whilst on leave from Aquaba in 1953

 

The Lost City of Petra taken whilst on leave from Aquaba in 1953

Arab Legion Fort near Petra

 

More Photos From Deversoir

Me outside my tent

My tent mates at Deversoir

 

The lads relaxing at Deversoir Point

 

The Wash Point

Night Guard Mounting

Me on my 18th Birthday

On the banks of the Suez Canal

Coronation Day Parade, Deversoir 1951

L/Sgt Mintrum

On Exercise in the Sinai Desert

Somewhere in the Sinai

Vienna cafe in Aquaba

Street cafe in Jerusalem

In Damacus

Home on the S.S. Empire Halledale - March 54

 

 

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