Survey Engineer Regiment (1 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Undated photocopy (possibly a contemporary diazo print) of an annotated 1st edition map 65x60cm. Very good, neatly folded. This was originally surveyed, drawn and reproduced in April 1949 by 42 Survey Engineer Regiment, which had been formed and moved to RAF Fayid in Egypt in 1947. By this time, British forces had withdrawn from Egyptian cities to the Canal Zone, an area immediately adjacent to the Suez Canal, the better to protect it in the face of growing nationalist unrest, which would escalate in 1950, culminating in the Suez Crisis in 1956. Fayid had not long previously been a fishing village that the British developed as an air base during WW2. Centred on the cinema and one of the churches, this sheet is bounded by Great Bitter Lake / El Ambag (NE), Shell Oil Company buildings (SE), Gebel El Goza El Hamra (SW), and buildings ms annotated as General Headquarters (NW). Features include district boundaries, the Sweet Water Canal, airstrip, power and water lines, filtration plant, pumps, tanks, sports facilities, cemetery, churches, shopping centre etc. Relief is shown with contour lines. Annotations to the top locate various parts of RASC (Royal Army Service Corps).