Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)YMCA/4/6/18
TitleFlyer for daily tours in Cairo, Luxor and Asswan for members of the Armed Forces
Extent1 file
Date[1945]
DescriptionFlyer by the British YMCA for HM and Allied Forces with trips to the pyramids and Sphinx, old Cairo and Nile trips advertised.
Access StatusOpen
Administrative HistoryOriginally of the Royal Fusiliers but was then transferred to the Reconnaissance Corp before finally being transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corp during the Second World War. He had qualified as a solicitor in May 1938 and was working in London when he was called up on 1940. Left England in August 1945 as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, going initially to Cairo. He was then promoted to Captain and moved on to Beirut and Damascus before embarking for the UK on the 30th March 1946 when he was eventually demobbed on the 5th May 1946.

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