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Date Posted: 28/07/16 16:47:10
Author: John Downey
Subject: Re: RAF El Adem
In reply to: John 'Gary' Cooper 's message, "RAF El Adem" on 24/02/04 8:48:46

I've just come across this site, and see several entries regarding 5001 Squadron, but all after my time there, and I have often wondered what became of it.
I was posted to 5001 at El Hamra in the Canal Zone in May 1954, and later in the summer 'volunteered' for El Adem as a replacement plant op. for timex/tourex. The squadron was engaged in laying the first (as I recall) tarmac runway at the time, the tarmac production site being about a mile south of the airfield. Also at this time the first work was done on what was to become the bombing range, using a Cat. D8 and scraper driven from El Adem to the bombing range site. A detachment of us was rushed overnight later in 1955 to work for Neuchatel Asphalt Co., laying the runway at Akrotiri (the height of EOKA, when English civilian workers were hard to find!), returning to El Adem in time for my 21st birthday, celebrated with my best mate, Brian (Spike) Spence, in June 1956, with a cup of tea in the NAAFI, as we were both stone broke, our pay documents not having caught up with our return.
It would be interesting to hear from anybody else who was at El Adem around this time (as somebody else has commented, prior to swimming pool, and women).

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[> [> Re: RAF El Adem -- Beryl Hurdle, 8/03/17 22:10:07

my father was in el adem during 1948 til 1955, he joined the raf as a boy entrant and was in Cyprus his name was eddie Edwards, princess Margaret gave the regiment their green and purple colours

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