A family’s flight from Egypt 80 years ago

John Conti (standing far right) together with wife Georgette (sitting right) holding Alfred. Also in the picture are Charles Abela (left) and Helen (Georgette’s sister) holding John, and the girls’ father, George Choucri. Right: Alfred at nine months.

John Conti Borda, a leading steward in the Royal Navy, had been stationed in Ismailia, a British base in Egypt during World War II, since 1941.He had not seen his parents, Alfredo and Maria, from the late 1930s and, so, he was yearning to see them. Finally, his chance came when, at the end of...