He was posted to the radio section of Divisional Signals where he was a radio operator. In October he became the radio operator on Major General Bernard Freyberg's communications tank. Here he describes the delights of the Burqa, the brothel district in Cairo. Megan Hutching: I suppose, thinking about it, you'd have had hardly anything to do with women, would you? Yes, yes. It'd probably please, if they knew, a lot of fiancees, They'd go and have a look.
Like the Burqa in Cairo, it was a wonderful place to spend an afternoon. There was The worst thing they ever did was close it which they did It was closed when we went to the pre-Alamein leave I don't know but Montgomery got the blame for it.
They thought he was a puritan All it did was drove the trade underground and they turned up in the bars and nightclubs, and not the good class They gave you lectures on the dangers of Veneral Disease VD , and one of the must do's in Cairo was a visit to the Museum of Hygiene which would put you off sex for the rest of your life They were very graphic descriptions of cases of, various cases of VD. Can you tell us more about the information on this page?
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