Sweet Water Blues
Subtitle: Memories of National Service in the Royal Air Force
Publisher: The Short Run Book Company Ltd
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Windsor,  Berkshire UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
Table of contents: label: Foreword
pagenum: page 5 |; label: List of Illustrations
pagenum: page 7 |; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: page 11 |; label: Introduction
pagenum: page 13 |; title: Chapter; label: 1
pagenum: page 15
title: Registering For National Service - The Medical Examination; label: 2
pagenum: page 23
title: Called Up! - Arrival - No.1 Reception Unit - RAF Padgate; label: 3
pagenum: page 33
title: RAF Hednesford - 'Squarebashing' - Basic training; label: 4
pagenum: page 39
title: Ground Combat Training - The Assault Course; label: 5
pagenum: page 43
title: Kit Inspections - Getting a '252' - Jankers; label: 6
pagenum: page 47
title: Fire Picquet - On the Firing Range - A Lesson with Grenades; label: 7
pagenum: page 51
title: Tear Gas - Trade Selection - Passing-Out Parade - Home Leave; label: 8
pagenum: page 61
title: No.4 School of Technical Training - RAF St Athan; label: 9
pagenum: page 73
title: Royal Route Duties in Cardiff - Passing the Course - Promotion; label: 10
pagenum: page 77
title: We Receive Our Postings - Tropical Kit Issue at RAF Lytham; label: 11
pagenum: page 83
title: Arrival in the Land of Egypt - El Hamra Transit Camp; label: 12
pagenum: page 91
title: Posted to 216 Squadron - RAF Station Fayid; label: 13
pagenum: page 107
title: Getting About - Bedbugs - The 'Honeybus' - Cookhouse Food; label: 14
pagenum: page 115
title: Guard Duties - Patrolling the Perimeter Wire and Other Places; label: 15
pagenum: page 127
title: Dysentery - a Poisoned Finger - Hospitalised with Laryngitis; label: 16
pagenum: page 131
title: A Trip to Aqaba - Jazz - Airfield Duties; label: 17
pagenum: page 141
title: The Old Vic Lido - Sweet Water Canal - 'Bootblack Incident'; label: 18
pagenum: page 147
title: My First Christmas in the Suez Canal Zone; label: 19
pagenum: page 153
title: Guard Duty on New Year's Eve - Promotion - Paratroop Exercise; label: 20
pagenum: page 161
title: AOC's visit - USAF Globemasters Short-Stop to S.E. Asia; label: 21
pagenum: page 163
title: A Trip to Kenya - Wadi Halfa - Juba - Khartoum - Nairobi; label: 22
pagenum: page 173
title: Temporary Secondment to Air Movements Section; label: 23
pagenum: page 177
title: Fire in the Cookhouse - A Brush With An Aircrew Type; label: 24
pagenum: page 181
title: Surplus Ordnance - Geneifa - Ismailia Returns 'IN BOUNDS'; label: 25
pagenum: page 187
title: Airfield Working Gear - Aussie Hats - Buying a Watch; label: 26
pagenum: page 191
title: Leave in Cyprus - Field Marshal Montgomery Visits Egypt; label: 27
pagenum: page 195
title: Trouble in Cyprus - Another Christmas in the Canal Zone; label: 28
pagenum: page 199
title: New Year 1955 - 'Boat Happy' - 'Shooting Licence' Renewal; label: 29
pagenum: page 211
title: Port Said - Waiting For the Boat - Southampton Bound; label: 30
pagenum: page 217
title: A Wintry Welcome - Innsworth, Gloucester - Demobilisation; label: Glossary
pagenum: page 221; label: Postscript
pagenum: page 223; label: Bibliography
pagenum: page 225