Continued - Part 12
The nearest island to Gan is Fedu which during WWII was connected to Gan by a causeway of concrete blocks laid with wooden beams and planks. These were used as a simple road to connect the two islands, but when we were there in 1958 the timber linking the concrete blocks had long since gone. Legend was that with no workable land-based wheeled vehicles left in the islands once the R.A.F. left at the end of the war; the islanders just removed the timber from the causeway for building purposes.
The WWII-built causeway linking Gan to Fedu can be seen in the background in my 1958 photo above.
..and close-up showing where the timbers were originally laid.
Photo taken on Fedu as I demonstrated my Rollieflex camera to the kids.
Hussein our billet boy. We paid him in cigarettes - about 20-cigarettes a week was the going rate ISTR. The walls of our billet consisted of woven palm leaves "Kadjan" - see the earlier photo of them being woven.
Wading across to Fedu. Local Islanders can be seen wading across too.
More to Come
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