An edition of Sweet Water Blues
(2001)
Sweet Water Blues
Memories of National Service in the Royal Air Force
by John Mitchell
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Egyptian Canal Zone, Suez, Port Said, Ismailia, CairoTimes
1953-1955Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Sweet Water Blues: Memories of National Service in the Royal Air Force
2001, The Short Run Book Company Ltd
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Foreword.
List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Chapter
1. Registering For National Service - The Medical Examination
2. Called Up! - Arrival - No.1 Reception Unit - RAF Padgate
3. RAF Hednesford - 'Squarebashing' - Basic training
4. Ground Combat Training - The Assault Course
5. Kit Inspections - Getting a '252' - Jankers
6. Fire Picquet - On the Firing Range - A Lesson with Grenades
7. Tear Gas - Trade Selection - Passing-Out Parade - Home Leave
8. No.4 School of Technical Training - RAF St Athan
9. Royal Route Duties in Cardiff - Passing the Course - Promotion
10. We Receive Our Postings - Tropical Kit Issue at RAF Lytham
11. Arrival in the Land of Egypt - El Hamra Transit Camp
12. Posted to 216 Squadron - RAF Station Fayid
13. Getting About - Bedbugs - The 'Honeybus' - Cookhouse Food
14. Guard Duties - Patrolling the Perimeter Wire and Other Places
15. Dysentery - a Poisoned Finger - Hospitalised with Laryngitis
16. A Trip to Aqaba - Jazz - Airfield Duties
17. The Old Vic Lido - Sweet Water Canal - 'Bootblack Incident'
18. My First Christmas in the Suez Canal Zone
19. Guard Duty on New Year's Eve - Promotion - Paratroop Exercise
20. AOC's visit - USAF Globemasters Short-Stop to S.E. Asia
21. A Trip to Kenya - Wadi Halfa - Juba - Khartoum - Nairobi
22. Temporary Secondment to Air Movements Section
23. Fire in the Cookhouse - A Brush With An Aircrew Type
24. Surplus Ordnance - Geneifa - Ismailia Returns 'IN BOUNDS'
25. Airfield Working Gear - Aussie Hats - Buying a Watch
26. Leave in Cyprus - Field Marshal Montgomery Visits Egypt
27. Trouble in Cyprus - Another Christmas in the Canal Zone
28. New Year 1955 - 'Boat Happy' - 'Shooting Licence' Renewal
29. Port Said - Waiting For the Boat - Southampton Bound
30. A Wintry Welcome - Innsworth, Gloucester - Demobilisation
Glossary.
Postscript.
Bibliography.
Edition Notes
The Physical Object
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