The Suppressed Story

Edited by: John Marrs & Richard Woolley.
Maintained by: Britain's Small Wars Website.

A photo collection of Suez Veterans.

Recently our attention has been drawn to a series of new books, articles and radio and television documentaries on the subjects covered by Britain's Small Wars. Their contents, in many cases, draw extensively on material published on this web site and used without acknowledgment or permission of the copyright holders.

When this site was created and developed, its aim, which remains, was to record those conflicts since 1945 in which British service personnel have been called upon to do their duty, reported as far as possible through the eye-witness accounts of those involved, and to create Honour Rolls, where none existed before, of those who gave their lives in service to their country. As a result this web site has become a valuable historical resource due to the voluntary efforts of our contributors, free from the profit-making needs of media publishers.

By using Britain's Small Wars copyright material without permission, some authors and publishers are not only taking credit falsely for their work, they are dishonouring British Forces and their achievements.
While we do not have the resources to 'police' the use of our material nor pursue costly litigation, we usually give permission freely to those who approach us to quote passages from our pages for their use.
In fact, they honour us by doing so. All we request is that they acknowledge the fact in their published work.

History and Recollections
The Suez Canal Zone A short modern history 1951 to 1954	Egypt (1945-1956) By Ex Royal Marine James Robinson	Regiments A list of Regiments in the Canal Zone
The Balloon is going up Sabre-rattling by both British and Egyptian Armed Forces	A Child in the Canal Zone By Lyn Metcalf nee Britnell	Women Women who served in the Canal Zone
Squadron Business By Ralph Swift aka "Speedy" 213 Squadron The Canal Zone 1953	Riots in Ismailia The Lancs and the Tanks go in	Paras in the Canal Zone Sgt. Terry Lawton tells his story
Map Map of the Suez Canal Zone	The Ack Ee’s Grave By Tony Briggs 22610691	"The Navy's Here" By Derek Harper, ex Leading Seaman, RP2
The Grenadier Guards 3rd Battalion in Egypt 1951-1954	The Royal Dragoons Egypt 1950-1954	Seven Hours of Hell The Ismailia Riots as told by the wife of a serviceman
The Royal Army Service Corps The Wagoner’s deliver the goods but pay a high price	The Poachers Take on the Egyptian Terrorists The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment	Trouble in Ismailia Armoured Car Commanders Experience
All Out War We actually came this close By L/Cpl John Goold	Shots In The Dark by Suez veteran Arthur Major Royal Air Force	Policing in Hell The Royal Military Police
Air OP Spotters The Unsung Heroes	Suez Canal Zone Driving Its Many Dangers	RAF Airfield Defence The RAF in the Canal Zone
The Anglo – Egyptian Alliance Treaty 1936 The mutual agreement that allowed Britain to have troops stationed in Egypt for a further 20 years	The Cheshires in the Canal Zone	The Railwaymen Sapper Railwayman-Suez Canal Zone
Canal Zone Casualties The numbers speak for themselves	My Service The Authors own experiences	Propaganda The Egyptian Propaganda
Newspaper Reports News Reports between April 1952 and Dec 1953	Was It War ?	Bodies found in the Sweet-water Canal Extract from: ‘THE RED BERET – EGYPT.’ November 1951.
Keren Camp Home Base of the 1st Infantry Division Transport Coln RASC	Torture and Mutilation Reports of Torture and Mutilation	The Royal Army Dental Corps in the Canal Zone
Sandstorms (The true meaning of absolute Hell)	Riots and Bed Bugs	Airman Sam's Funeral
Egypt Remembered Memories of a schoolboy in the Canal Zone.	Sister Anthony A Tribute to Sister Anthony. 1900 - 1952.	Navy Divers Search for Limpet Mines The Search for Limpet Mines.
Tom Erskine War Hero and Suez Veteran.	Honour at Last Sent in by Tony Tolan	The 1st INF. DIV. Colum R.A.S.C The final break-up: R.A.S.C. to R.C.T.
Suez Canal Zone Memorial. The National Memorial Arboretum.	Ismailia Pictures of Ish	Life in BSH - El Ballah (and sometimes death.)
RAF Navigator in the Zone	A Medical Officer The personal experiences of a NS MO	Lest We Forget A brief account of my time in the Zone, by T. Tolan
Locked Up An account of being in a military prison	H.M.S. Peacock Showing the Flag	Collection of Cap Badges Bob Scurrah's collection of cap badges. (1949 to 1954)
The 17th Independent Armoured Escort Agency By 22466779 Pte Bird.A 1st Royal Sussex 1951/53	‘Re-badging…’ By 22466779 Pte Bird.A 1st Royal Sussex 1951/53	‘…And Here be Dragons’ By “Roussilon”
Blighty and Beyond by ‘Roussillon’ VI	“Falling between three stools…”	A Child's eye view Anne Ammundsen's recollections.
My Service at RAF Fayid 1953 – 1955. by Alan (Fred) Merryweather.	At the Caracol Some photos taken at the time of the attack, and the story behind them.	Mrs Smith's Canal Zone Diary Some extracts from the diary of a RAF Sergeant's wife.
Our 36 hour pass to Cairo A lucky escape.	Preparation for the Suez Canal Zone The dreaded RASC Depot Battalion.	Keeping the Lines Open A period of life at Tel el Kebir.
Welcome to the Canal Zone Two stories by Bryn Evans, ex RMP Dog Handler.	Medical Negligence Why I reported sick and what happened afterwards.	A Child's life in the Canal zone By John Boon.

The Medal Campaign
Active Service ? Active Service, and its definition	Graves of those who died Fayid War Cemetery
Casualties of War Stats on the casualties in all of Britain's Small Wars	The Champaign of our Cause Tom Radford
Colonel Philip Newton A Tribute	The Pride They Could Not Hide The March Past the Queen and the Cenotaph
Overwhelming Support for a Medal	Conclusion My Final thoughts & thanks
Incident Information – Some Statistics and a Sitrep Statistics concerning incidents during part of the Suez Emergency – October 1951 to July 1954	General the Lord Guthrie A Brief Profile
Sub-Committee of the HD Committee	Report to the Committee on the Grant of Honours, Decorations and Medals.
Criteria and address for your Suez Medal Revised April '05	Letter of information from: Mr R T Coney

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