From George Blinko “1947: Had to leave to start my 2years National Service which after training I served with the 16th/5th Queens Royal Lancers serving 15 months in Egypt rising to the elevated rank of corporal.I did get asked to sign on for 5 years with a 6 month course at Beaconsfield and a third stripe thrown in “PORT SAID Gateway to the Suez Canal
The idea of linking the Mediterranean and Red sea first occurred during the time of Pharoahs.
On November 17,1869 the Suez Canal was opened for navigation.
The Suez Canal has a strategic location. It links two oceans and two seas the Atlantic and Mediterranean via Gibraltar to Port Said, and the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea via Bab Al Mandab and the Gulf of Suez to the port of Suez. British forces were very active in maintaining this strategic point from its opening until 1956 when it was nationalised by President Nasser of Egypt.
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