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Anyway, photo dated late June 1967 - Note the trusty Lee Enfield .303. We were armed with either .303 + ten rounds of ammo, or a pick-axe handle to thwart the dizzies, if and when they tried to throw their Russian grenades. Not too sure what we were supposed to do with the pick-axe handle, perhaps bat the grenade back to where it came from! Always felt safer with the .303, and even safer when on airfield guard as we were well away from the dizzies, way out in the bondu.
The photo was taken at Ma’ala wharf, the dock-side area where I had been co-opted to act as a guard after the Arab dock workers downed tools and went on general strike. The colony was shut-down by the Arab Unions as a reprisal for (as their propaganda machine had told them), the UK’s HMS Ark Royal carrier aircraft sneaking up on the Egyptian air force and bombing them on the ground, and thereby assisting Israel pomelle the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian air forces in the six-day war.
The photo was taken at Ma’ala wharf, the dock-side area where I had been co-opted to act as a guard after the Arab dock workers downed tools and went on general strike. The colony was shut-down by the Arab Unions as a reprisal for (as their propaganda machine had told them), the UK’s HMS Ark Royal carrier aircraft sneaking up on the Egyptian air force and bombing them on the ground, and thereby assisting Israel pomelle the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian air forces in the six-day war.