Egypt connections

Reflecting on my family's Egyptian connections I remember that my
father fought under Field Marshal Montgomery at the turning point of Rommel's North African campaign and defeat at El Alamein. Some thirty years later he returned as a horticultural specialist working for UK parks and monuments responsible for the military sites scattered throughout the Western Sahara and Middle East. His priviledged access to prohibited sites across the region allowed for his secondary role of collecting military intel on location and identification of the local forces in a tense stand-off with Israel.