The Barefoot Boy From Dublin Who Almost Thwarted the Egyptian Revolution (PH

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The barefoot boy from Dublin whoalmost thwarted the EgyptianRevolution (PHOTOS)

Caroline Rochford @heirlineltd (http://www.twitter.com/heirlineltd) March 11,2015 03:44 AM

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Can you imagine being sent away from home at the age of eight to join the British Army? Neithercould an ordinary little boy from Dublin (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/travel/-top-10-tourist-attractions-in-dublin-40902362-237774161.html) whose career path had already been pavedbefore hed celebrated his ninth birthday.

Joseph Paddy Rochford was born in 1912 to a poor Irish family who lived in the village ofChapelizod on the outskirts of Dublin. While his father was away fighting with the British Army onthe French battlefields, his mother was left to bring up her family alone, living in fear that if theGermans didnt kill her husband, Sinn Fin would. Irish freedom fighters were rising up against theBritish forces that occupied the land, and anybody caught siding with the enemy became a markedman.

Photo by: Caroline and Michael Rochford

Can you imagine being sent away at the age of 8 to join the British Army? The unbelievable true tale of Paddy Rochford.P

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Barefoot but happy, young Paddy could barely comprehended what the troubles were all about andspent his carefree days in the luscious Phoenix Park, daydreaming that one day he too wouldbecome a soldier.

That day came sooner than Paddy could have imagined when his father, Joseph senior, returnedfrom the Great War and, disillusioned by Irelands prospects, sent his eight-year-old son to theRoyal Hibernian Military School, a bleak institution that prepared young boys for careers in theBritish Army (http://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/Irish-to-lay-a-wreath-at-Londons-Cenotaph-on-Remembrance-Day-for-the-first-time.html).

Behind the cold, stone walls of the boarding school, Paddy was shielded from the poverty andviolence that plagued the streets. Homesick and bullied by the other boys, he did his best to knuckledown to his studies until 1922, when his life took an unexpected turn. Following the formation of theIrish Free State, the British Army was forced to evacuate the country. As the school was underBritish control, the boys of the Hib were sent hundreds of miles away to continue their militaryeducation at Dover, in the south of England, hardly ever seeing their parents again.

Paddy's dad, Joseph, in his army uniform

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It was a cold, rainy day in 1927 when a steam train pulled in to Aldershot Station and a smart, 15-year-old soldier stepped out. Having completed his studies, Paddy was ready to begin his career asa drummer in the Third Battalion of the Coldstream Guards.

Kitted out in his black bearskin and scarlet tunic, his first official duty was to guard the royal family atthe historic Windsor Castle. He learned all the secrets of this great bastion, including legendarystatues in the garden that came to life during the dead of night; the restless spirits that made theirhome on the shadowy East Terrace, and the time when a sentinel heard Big Ben strike 13 oclockall the way from London.

Paddy and his parents, Joseph and Annie Rochford



All too soon it was time to leave this picturesque town to travel to the capital city, where Paddy andhis comrades guarded Buckingham Palace, the Bank of England, and the dark Tower of London.

Though they called them the Roaring Twenties, industrial strife was beginning to take hold acrossEngland, dragging the country down into a state of depression; and by the 1930s everything beganto change. Adolf Hitlers Nazi Party was gaining power in Germany, so thousands of Jewish familiesbegan fleeing Europe, headed for the Holy Land. This mass immigration caused friction with theArab population, and the responsibility of keeping the peace fell to the Coldstream Guards.

Paddy and his collection of army boxing trophies



Armed and prepared for combat, Paddy and his men were thrown into a ferocious battle to defendthe holy city of Jerusalem from a riotous mob. Consequently, every town and village in Palestinehad to be searched for weapons and rebels, who the Guards rounded up and brought to makeshiftprison camps.

Paddy and his company were sent to Jericho, to scour the winding catacombs beneath the hillsidecaverns. Nothing was found, save for a collection of stone jars filled with what appeared to beyellowing parchment. Unsure of what these ancient relics were, Paddys commanding officerinstructed the men to leave them as they were, only for the same scriptures to be discovered by ashepherd boy three decades later, becoming known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Palestinian troops preparing for battle, 1938



Hundreds of miles away, trouble was brewing in Egypt as the public began rising up against theBritish, whod held dominion over their land since the 1880s. Younger officers of the Egyptian Army,disheartened by the state of their country, were whispering in the ears of the impressionablebarefoot natives, inciting them to cause mayhem on the streets. Once again it was down to theGuards to defuse the situation.

In 1939 the world changed forever: Britain declared war on Germany. Instead of returning toEngland, the Third Battalion was sent far across the Western Desert to defend the frontier of Egyptat all costs. The ill-equipped troops had to learn how to survive in the arid wilderness as the well-trained Italian Army advanced ever closer towards their position.

It wasnt long before Mussolini called for Germany to send reinforcements. Upon Hitlers personalcommand, a new expeditionary unit, known as the Afrika Korps, was formed. This was an elitefighting force under the leadership of the decorated Field Marshal Rommel, so cunning and devioushe became known as the Desert Fox, hell-bent on sniffing out every single Tommy in the WesternDesert.

Paddy, now a sergeant, found himself leading his men into the heat of battle. The sounds of shellsand mortar bombs grew ever closer, and as ammunition whizzed overhead, Paddy placed his life onthe line in order to bury one of his fallen comrades. After marking the sandy grave with an emptypetrol barrel and taking down the co-ordinates to send on to the Commonwealth War GravesCommission, he ordered his troops to withdraw.

Coldstream Guards mining a rebel stronghold in Jerusalem, 1938



During the ensuing mayhem, the young sergeant was run over by one of his own armored trucks.He heard his ribs crack as his body was crushed into the sand. Seriously injured and fearing for hislife, he was rushed through the desert in the back of a rickety ambulance alongside other woundedcomrades. Paddy was the only survivor when he arrived at Tobruk Hospital, from where he wastransported by sea to a military hospital in Alexandria.

Time passed by slowly while he made his recovery, each day growing hungrier for news of hisbattalion. Then, one grey morning, he learned that theyd gone down fighting the Desert Fox at ElAlamein, almost to the last man. His own future suddenly looked uncertain, until he was visited by aman from the British Military Mission in Cairo and offered a new career. He was to train theEgyptian Army at an institution known as the Small Arms Training School.

Being a smart and disciplined soldier, Paddy was appalled at the sight that greeted him when hearrived to begin his first day as military adviser. The building was ramshackle; the uniforms wereshabby, and the lax attitude demonstrated by the Egyptians was enough to make a Guardsman sinkinto a pit of despair. He later discovered that the school received little funding from the government.King Farouk had his own Royal Bodyguard to pay for, and so long as they were well equipped, whatdid it matter about the rest of the army?

Paddy in Egypt



Determined to make a go of it, Paddy threw himself into his work. In no time at all hed turned thefailing school around. He built shooting ranges; rewrote the syllabus, and sourced all the modernweapons of warfare for his students. His dedication impressed high-ranking Egyptian officials,including the king himself, who invited Paddy to a lavish cocktail party at Abdin Palace.

The humble young mans circle of influential friends began to increase, and one day he wasintroduced to a popular lieutenant colonel in the Egyptian Army. Gamal Abdel Nasser was adistinguished and highly regarded officer whod quickly worked his way up the ranks and coveredhimself in glory on the battlefield.

As the months rolled by, Paddy and Nasser developed a strong bond of friendship, and Paddylearned that his shy and unassuming companion was the keeper of a dark secret: he was aprominent figure in an underground movement that was furtively plotting to overthrow the king andthe government, before booting the British occupiers out of Egypt forever.

Privy to top-secret information, Paddy tried on several occasions to warn the authorities of the plansthat the revolutionary Egyptians had hatched, but his concerns were met with doubt and suspicion.The Second World War was over by now, and nobody wanted to believe more trouble was on theway. Besides, Nasser was from a working-class background, and as such was considered of littleconsequence, and certainly no threat to the mighty Britannia.

Paddy (centre, front row, with the white hat) and his troops at Moascar Garrison



In spite of this, Paddy spent some of his happiest years at the Small Arms Training School. Heenjoyed his job, and when the working day was done, hed travel into Cairo to sample the vibrantnightlife. The capital city was overrun with allied troops enjoying leave, seeking to forget theirtroubles. Drunken brawls were commonplace; prostitution was a roaring trade, and Cairo becamethe land of the quick fingered, where a local vagabond would have the contents of a soldierspockets out in a thrice, then disappear down a grimy back alley without a trace.

But Paddy had other things on his mind, for it was in Cairo where he met the love of his life. MarjorieRagsdell was a beautiful young English girl who was serving with the Womens Auxiliary Air Force.Shed recently arrived in Egypt fresh from a tiny farming village. Her brothers were too young tofight, so shed bravely volunteered to enlist in their stead, determined to make her war-veteranfather proud.

Paddy entering the Moascar Garrison swimming gala, 1951



Paddy was hit by Cupids arrow, and on 27th April 1946 his blushing bride arrived at HeliopolisBasilica, with flowers, picked from King Farouks garden, adorning her hair. Following a Catholicceremony, the newlyweds headed off to spend their month-long honeymoon by the MediterraneanSea.

The couples brief spell of peace was shattered when anti-British factions began stirring up trouble.Murder had returned to the streets of Cairo, and the sands of time were fast running out for Egyptsgluttonous king. Hed already caused the first crack to appear in his throne by giving in to Britainsdemands in 1942, when Churchill ordered King Farouk to sack his pro-German prime minister, orelse. The second crack came when he divorced his beautiful Queen Farida, who the Egyptianpublic adored as a Hollywood starlet; and the third crack, which threatened to shatter the royal seatcompletely, emerged when he fell out of favor with the younger officers in his army, who felt the kingwas offering them few prospects.

With the monarchy in disrepute, Colonel Nassers Free Officers were beginning to fancy theirchances. Grenades were thrown into public places; soldiers were stabbed to death, and rivers wererunning thick with bodies.

The American administration troops were quickly pulling out of Cairo, for it had become toodangerous to stay; and by Christmas 1946 the British were following suit. They withdrew theirtroops and resources 80 miles away to the Suez Canal Zone. Paddy was promoted to regimentalsergeant major and transferred to Moascar, the last garrison of the British Army in Egypt.

The Egyptians, however, were still not satisfied with these arrangements, and began cutting offfood, petrol and water supplies from the larger towns. Egyptian employees were bribed to stop

Paddy and Marjorie on their wedding day



working for the British forces, and terrorists from Cairo came up to Moascar to sneak around thearmy camps, murdering every British man, woman or child they came across.

The violence peaked on 26th January 1952. This was a day so brutal it became known as BlackSaturday. Organised squads patrolled the streets of the capital city, setting alight hundreds ofbuildings and butchering every non-Egyptian they encountered. Even the police kept their distance,too afraid to intervene.

On the Canal Zone, British troops waited with bated breath for the command to march back toCairo, but it never came. This lack of British intervention confirmed to the rebels that Britain was aspent force, effectively giving the green light to the Free Officers. Nasser knew his time had come.

On 23rd July, Nasser and his closest aides staged their military coup, which became known tohistory as the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Having taken control of Abbassia Barracks, Nassercalled for the abdication and immediate exile of King Farouk. Full of fury, Egypts last monarchpacked his 273 suitcases and set sail on his royal yacht, destined to spend his remaining years inItaly.

Egypt became a republic, and Nasser, who went on to rule as president, demanded the evacuationof the British troops from the whole of his country within 12 months.

Back in London, Paddy found it difficult to adjust to a humdrum life after so much adventure, so heretired from the army and moved his young family to the Yorkshire city of Leeds, in the north ofEngland, where he settled into civilian life and became the superintendent of a social housingestate.

1960s Christmas card to Paddy from President Nasser



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