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Reference code: GB165-0410
Title: Charles Hepworth Collection
Name of creator: Hepworth, Charles (b.1943)
Dates of creation of material: 1936-2009
Level of description: Fonds
Extent: 6 boxes
Biographical history: Hepworth, Charles (b.1943)
Born 17 February 1943 in Quetta, Baluchistan, before the partition of India. Educated at
Daniel Stewart's College (Edinburgh Merchant Company) and the Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst (RMAS). Commissioned into the King's Regiment in 1963. Served
over nine years in the Middle East, including a short tour in Aden in 1967, the Sultanate of
(Muscat and) Oman in 1970/71 and 1977/78 and the Kingdom of Sa'udi Arabia, with the
British Military Mission to the Sa'udi Arabian National Guard (BMM to SANG), from
1981 to 1983. Attended Army Staff College (ASC) in 1975/76. Retired in the rank of
major in 1986. Returned to Oman on contract service from 1986 to 1989. Employed as a
Ministry of Defence (MOD) civil servant from 1990 to 2003. Married with two
daughters. Fairly widely travelled in Arab countries. Retirement, since 2003, divided
between the Yorkshire Dales and the Vendee, France. Interests include reading, much of it
concerning the Muslim world, walking, travel and sport.
Scope and content: Papers and photographs relating to Charles Hepworth’s service in the
Sultan’s Armed Forces during 1970-1971 including a memoir ‘A Walk on God’s Carpet
Adventures in Oman’; training materials including ‘Field Notes on Saudi Arabia 1935’;
papers relating to missions, speeches by the Sultan, propaganda leaflets and SAF bulletins.
Also includes some maps of Southern Arabia, newspaper clippings and a small amount of
correspondence about walking and mapping in Oman, as well as digital copies of 35mm
slides including Morocco, Oman, the Hadhramaut (Aden) and a report of a Sandhurst
expedition to the Hadramaut 1962-1963 with photographs.
System of arrangement:
1 Memoir
2 Training Materials
3 SAF missions
4 Abdication of Sultan bin Taimur
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5 Arms Armistice Notification
6 Speeches by Sultan of Oman
7 Propaganda Leaflets and Booklets
8 SAF Bulletins
9 Maps of Southern Arabia
10 Newspapers and Presscuttings
11 Booklets and Articles on the Arab World and Oman
12 Walking in Oman
13 Correspondence with UK Hydrographic Office
14 Slides
15 Sandhurst Expedition to Hadhramaut 1962-1963
Access conditions: Open
Language of material: Mainly English with some Arabic material and a small amount of
Urdu
Conditions governing reproduction: No restrictions on copying or quotation other than
statutory regulations and preservation concerns
Immediate source of acquisition: Received as a gift from Charles Hepworth on 8 March
2007. Revised and updated memoir received as a gift from Charles Hepworth on 17 June
2010. 35mm slides, boxes 3 and 4, received 7 June 2011 and boxes 5 and 6 received 29 Jan
2013 for copying. Report of the Sandhurst Expedition and 56 photographic prints received
as a gift on 24 Oct 2011.
Related Units of Description:
In MEC Archive
The MEC Archive has many collections relating to Oman’s military history in 1970s.
Please consult the Guide to Collections relating to Oman for further information.
Finding aids: In Guide; Handlist
Archivist’s note: Fonds, file and item level description created by Debbie Usher 15 Mar
2007. Revised by Thomas Stanbury with additional slides 14 Feb 2013. Revised by Debbie
Usher with Sandhurst Expedition material on 10 Dec 2014. Some item level descriptions
based on list prepared by Charles Hepworth. Biographical history supplied by Charles
Hepworth.
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SERIES AND ITEM LEVEL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARLES HEPWORTH
COLLECTION
1 Memoir
1/1 ‘A Walk on God’s Carpet (Adventures in Oman)’ by
Charles Hepworth giving an account of Charles
Hepworth’s military service and travels in Oman 1970-
1989
1970s-2006 1 volume
1/2 ‘A Walk on God’s Carpet (Adventures in Oman) by
Charles Hepworth giving an account of Charles
Hepworth’s military service and travels in Oman 1970-
1989 revised and updated in 2009 including a separately
bound ‘Part 4 Return to Oman’
1970s-2009 2 volumes
2 Training Materials
Training materials covering strategy, historical
background, language, weapons recognition, procedure for
examining shell and mortar craters and information on the
organisation and capabilities of the Armed Car Squadron
1936-1982 6 files
2/1 Operational Charter
TS ‘Dhofar – Operational Charter and guide for officers of
the Northern Frontier Regiment proceeding to Dhofar’
setting out strategic concepts for fighting in Dhofar.
Written by HQ, Northern Frontier Regiment, Bid Bid.
Dec 1969 37 sheets
2/2 Historical Background
2/2/1 TS text of speech entitled ‘The Question of Oman’
delivered to the United Nations by Mr CT Crowe,
CMG, Deputy Permanent Representative In The
Special Political Committee, On Wednesday,
November 21, 1962.
21 Nov 1962 11 sheets
2/2/2 Photocopy of TS ‘Short history of The Sultan’s
Armed Forces’ by Lt. Col. CC Maxwell, Deputy
20 Aug 1967 8 sheets
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Commander, SAF
2/2/3 TS ‘Historical Background Brief – Revolution in
Oman’ giving a chronology of events from 1932 to
Oct 1974
Not dated post
1974
7 sheets
2/2/4 Photocopy of ‘A Short History of the 1963 – 1975
Campaign in the Sultanate of Oman’, 16 Army
Staff Course 1982, Restricted
1982 7 sheets
2/2/5 SAF Handbook for Staff College Students
(Restricted) consisting of the following:
Part I Historical Note
Part II Organisation of SAF
Part III The War in Dhofar
Lang: In English and Arabic
Not dated post
1976
85 sheets
2/2/6 Duplicate of Part III The War in Dhofar in the
Sultan’s Armed Forces Handbook for Staff College
Students
Not dated post
1976
22 sheets
2/2/7 Printed book ‘Field Notes on Sa’udi Arabia 1935’,
Air Ministry (Confidential) includes map of Sa’udi
Arabia printed at the War Office 1936
Aug 1936 1 vol
2/3 Language Training 1971 2 items
2/3/1 Booklet entitled ‘Jebali for Jebel Bashers’ printed
and published by the Desert Regiment (Salala)
giving language instruction with brief vocabulary
lists and useful phrases
1971 1 booklet
2/3/2 List of ‘Army Ranks in Arabic’
Lang: English and Arabic
31 Aug 1971 2 sheets
2/4 Enemy Weapons Recognition
2/4/1 Sultan’s Armed Forces booklet entitled ‘Know
Your Enemy’ briefly setting out the aim of
operations in Dhofar, listing names of rebel leaders
20 Jan 1971 1 booklet
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but mainly serving as a rebel weaponry recognition
hand-book.
Lang: English and Arabic
2/4/2 TS memo from TAC HQ, The Oman Artillery HQ
Dhofar, Salalah giving instruction on enemy
weapons recognition, range and performance for
75mm recoilless rifle and ammunition (Heat)
15 Sept 1971 3 sheets
2/4/3 Enemy Weapons Recognition drawings and
diagrams
Admin Hist: Issued by Oman Artillery to all units
in Dhofar
Not dated 3 sheets
2/5 Procedure for shell and mortar crater examination
2/5/1 TS memo ‘An Instant Answer to Arty Int’ giving
instruction on procedures for the examination of
shell and mortar bomb craters in order to determine
rebel gun positions
Admin Hist: Issued by Oman Artillery to all units
in Dhofar
Not dated 2 sheets
2/6 Armoured Car Squadron
2/6/1 TS memo ‘The Armoured Car Squadron’, issued by
Armoured Car Squadron, SAF, Bid Bid giving
details as to the organisation and capabilities of the
proposed new squadron
6 Aug 1971 5 sheets
3 SAF missions
Papers relating to SAF missions including intelligence on
rebel capabilities, memo on Kuria Muria mission,
regimental diaries, report on an engagement with rebels
and a special force routine order giving thanks for work in
operations to support the civil police in Muscat, Muttrah
and Ruwi
1970-1971 5 items
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3/1 Intelligence on rebel capabilities
3/1/1 TS Annex A to ‘Op Instr No 2, Dhofar’ giving
details of the reported locations and estimated
strength, weapons and activities of rebel units
3 Nov 1970 2 sheets
3/2 Kuria Muria Mission
3/2/1 Memo ‘Visit To Kuria Muria’ from HQ Dhofar
Salalah, detailing planned mission to Kuria Muria
to provide food and medical relief, to have
‘political talks with the Headman’ and to ‘recce the
airstrip’
6 Apr 1971 1 sheet
3/3 Regimental Diaries
3/3/1 Regimental Diary Northern Frontier Regiment Jul 1971 4 sheets
3/3/2 Regimental Diary Northern Frontier Regiment Aug 1971 3 sheets
3/4 Enemy Engagement Report
3/4/1 Contact Report No: 18, HQ Northern Frontier
Regiment, Salalah with attached:
Aug 1971 5 sheets
MS of the PFLOAG version of contact from a
Radio Aden Broadcast at 2100 hrs on 13 Aug
1971
List of items captured by ‘B’ Coy NFR in
result of contact
Translation of captured letter
3/5 Special Force Routine order: Thanks to units
3/5/1 ‘Civil Disturbances, 1st to 2
nd September 1971’
Special Force Routine Orders by Brigadier JDC
Graham thanking the officers and men of all the
SAF and SOAF units who took part in operations to
support the civil police in restoring order to
Muscat, Muttrah and Ruwi
5 Sept 1971 1 sheet
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Lang: In English and Arabic
4 Abdication of Sultan bin Taimur
4/1 Original signal received by ‘B’ Coy NFR, at Izki, at 1035
hrs on 26 Jul 1970, on the abdication of Sultan bin Taimur
in favour of his son Qaboos
26 Jul 1970 1 sheet
4/2 TS Proclamation by Sultan Qaboos Bin Said made under
cover of HQ SAF, Bait al-Falaj and issued to all SAF units
informing all ranks that their allegiance is to the Sultan,
that the Dhofar Force has come under the command of
SAF and the ‘Sultan will enter Muscat in the near future’
26 Jul 1970 2 sheets
5 Arms Armistice Notification
5/1 Notification of ‘Arms and Ammunition Armistice and
Registration’ for Nov 1971 to Jan 1972
Lang: In Arabic
1971-1972 1 sheet
6 Speeches by Sultan of Oman
6/1 TS ‘Transcript of a Statement by Jalalat as Sultan,
broadcast over Radio Oman’
Admin Hist: Typed copy sent to all SAF units
9 Aug 1970 4 sheets
6/2 TS ‘Address given by HM Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, Radio
Oman, Muscat’
Lang: English, Arabic and Urdu
23 Apr 1971 10 sheets
6/3 TS ‘Address by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said to the
nation on the occasion of the first National Day’
Two copies of an English translation with the Arabic text
attached
Lang: English and Arabic
23 Jul 1971 3 sheets
6/4 Speech by Sultan Qaboos bin Said marking National Day
at the Ministry of Information
23 Jul 1971 1 sheet
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7 Propaganda
7/1 Leaflets covering governmental, war, health and
agricultural propaganda some of which were designed for
air drops
Lang: In Arabic
c1970 12 sheets
7/2 ‘Dhofar, Britain’s Colonial War in the Gulf. A Collection
of documents and articles’. Edited and published by The
Gulf Committee, Jan 1972.
Admin Hist: According to this booklet the Gulf Committee
was established in May 1971 ‘to inform the British public
of revolutionary struggles in the Gulf area’ and ‘to give
evidence of Britain’ imperialist role in the Gulf…’
Jan 1972 1 booklet
8 SAF Bulletins
News sheet published by Headquarters Sultan’s Armed
Forces mainly giving information of successful SAF
operations and progress in fighting although also including
some details on SAF causalities
Lang: In English, Arabic and Urdu
Mar-Oct 1971 9 items
8/1 Serial No 17 3 Mar 1971 2 sheets
8/2 Serial No 20 28 Apr 1971 1 sheet
8/3 Serial No 21 15 May 1971 3 sheets
8/4 Serial No 23 10 Jun 1971 3 sheets
8/5 Serial No 23 [?misprint for 24] 24 Jun 1971 3 sheets
8/6 Serial No 25 5 Jul 1971 2 sheets
8/7 Serial No 27 2 Aug 1971 1 sheet
8/8 Serial no 28 26 Aug 1971 1 sheet
8/9 Serial No 31 14 Oct 1971 1 sheet
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9 Maps of Southern Arabia
9/1 Laila
Scale 1:1,000,000, Series 1301, Sheet NF 38, Edition 4-
GSGS, compiled by RGS, drawn by the War Office, 1943,
printed 10-64 by Army Map Service Corps of Engineers.
1943 1 item
9/2 Aden
Scale 1:1,000,000, Sheet North D-38 Aden, 4th
Edition,
512 Fd Survey Coy, RE
1945 1 item
9/3 Riyadh
Scale 1:1,000,000, Series 1301, sheet NG 38, Edition 3-
GSGS, Reprinted by AMS 1951 from a Second Edition
MDR map
1945 1 item
9/4 Mukalla – Socotra
Scale 1:1,000,000, Series 1301, Sheet ND-39, Edition 4-
GSGS, reproduced by 17 Map Reproduction Section RE,
Aug 1945 with partial revision of Socotra
1945 1 item
9/5 Bahr As Safi
Scale 1:1,000,000, Series GSGS 4646, Sheet NE-39,
Edition 1, Reprinted from First Edition, MDR, 1/12253,
1945 and Printed for D Survey (WO and AM) by Ordnance
Survey
1956 1 item
9/6 Qizan
Scale 1:1,000,000, Series GSGS 4646, Sheet NE 38,
Edition 1-GSGS, Reprinted from First Edition, MDR
1/12284, 1945 and Reproduced by War Office
1956 1 item
9/7 Duqm
1:500,000, Series 1404, Sheet 670-B, Edition 1-GSGS,
Published By D Survey, War Office and Air Ministry
1958 1 item
9/8 Sur, cross-country movement map
Scale 1:250,000, Series K563 S, Sheet NF- 40-8, Edition
1-GSGS, Published by D Survey, War Office and Air
Ministry
1959 1 item
9/9 Great South Desert 1961 1 item
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Scale 1:1,000, 000, Sheet ONC-J-7, 1st Edition, USAF
Operational Navigation Chart, US Air Force, St Louis,
Missouri
9/10 Salala
1:500,000, Series 1404, Sheet 670-D, Edition 3-GSGS,
Published by D Survey, MOD, UK
1965 1 item
9/11 Ash Shisar
Scale 1:5,000,000, Series 1404, Sheet 669-B, Edition 3-
GSGS, Arabic and English, Published by D Survey, MOD,
UK
1968 1 item
9/12 Umm As Samim
Scale 1:500,000, Series 1404, Sheet 563-D, Edition 1-
GSGS, Arabic and English, Published by D Survey, MOD,
UK
1968 1 item
9/13 Al-Mariyah
1:500,000, Series 1404, Sheet 564-B, Edition 1-GSGS,
Arabic and English, Published by D Survey, MOD, UK
1968 1 item
9/14 ‘Ibri
Scale 1:500,000, Series 1404, Sheet 563-A, Edition 1-
GSGS, Arabic and English, Published by D Survey, MOD,
UK
1968 1 item
9/15 Dubayy (Dubai)
Scale 1:500,000, Series 1404, Sheet 548-D, Edition 2-
GSGS, Published by D Survey, MOD, UK
1969 1 item
9/16 Marmul
Scale 1:500,000, Series 1404, Sheet 670-A, Edition 3-
GSGS, Published by D Survey, MOD, UK
1969 1 item
9/17 Oman Full Coverage
Scale 1:500,000
Admin Hist: Used as a touring map
Physical Condition: Parts of the map are missing as they
have been trimmed to fit a volume
post 1970s 1 vol
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10 Newspapers and Presscuttings
Small number of copies of the Omani newspaper ‘Al
Watan (The Homeland) and western media presscuttings
1970-1986 2 files
10/1 ‘Al-Watan (The Homeland)
Admin Hist: ‘Al-Watan was the first Omani newspaper
following the accession of Sultan Qaboos. Printed in
Beirut, Lebanon.
Lang: In Arabic
1971 6 items
10/1/1 Issue no 4 18 Feb 1971 4 sheets
10/1/2 Issue no 5 25 Feb 1971 6 sheets
10/1/3 Issue no 7 11 Mar 1971 2 sheets
10/1/4 Issue no 9 25 Mar 1971 6 sheets
10/1/5 Issue no 10 1 Apr 1971 2 sheets
10/1/6 Issue no 24 5 Aug 1971 6 sheets
10/1/7 Fragment of internal pages Not dated 2 sheets
10/1/8 Special issue on occasion of the First Anniversary
of 23 Jul
[1971] 1 booklet
10/2 Western Media Press Cuttings
Mainly consisting of articles about Oman, the Gulf, Saudi
Arabia or Oil
1970-1986 16 items
10/2/1 ‘Requiem for the Empty Quarter’
Geographical Magazine
Not dated
c1970
6 sheets
10/2/2 ‘A jump of centuries A survey of the Arabian
Peninsula’ The Economist
6 Jun 1970 1 booklet
10/2/3 ‘Oil: Trouble of Wealth for the Arabian Dessert?’
Daily Telegraph Magazine
23 Apr 1971 5 sheets
10/2/4 ‘Where British Soldiers Still Die Under a Foreign
Flag’, Observer, London
6 Jun 1971 4 sheets
10/2/5 The Arab World. A Daily Digest of Arab opinion,
Political & Business News
5 Aug 1971 12 sheets
10/2/6 ‘Saudi Arabia’ 14 Dec 1971 4 sheets
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The Financial Times
10/2/7 ‘Bahrein’
The Times
16 Dec 1971 2 sheets
10/2/8 ‘Union of Arab Emirates’
The Times
21 Dec 1971 4 sheets
10/2/9 ‘Expedition to Unknown Musandam’
Geographical Magazine
Nov 1972 4 sheets
10/2/10 ‘Oman – Embarrassing the money lenders’
The Economist
21 Apr 1973 2 sheets
10/2/11 Photostat copy of ‘Oman – problems on all sides’,
Events
15 Oct 1976 4 sheets
10/2/12 ‘Oman’
Financial Times, Survey
17 Nov 1976 5 sheets
10/2/13 ‘Oman- a Special Report’
The Times
18 Nov 1976 6 sheets
10/2/14 ‘The City of The Profit’ (The Hajj)
The Daily Telegraph Magazine
Not dated
1970s-80s
4 sheets
10/2/15 Photostat of ‘Letters from London-The Ugly
Englishman’
consisting of a book review by Claud Morris of
the book
‘Oman, the making of a modern state’, by John
Townsend
Not dated 1 sheet
10/2/16 ‘Oman – March of Progress’
The Traveller
Spring 1986 1 booklet
11 Booklets and Articles on Arab World and Oman
11/1 Printed article ‘Kingsmen in the Gulf’, by Lt. Col. PR
Large from ‘The Journal of the King’s Regiment’
1970 1 sheet
11/2 ‘The Arabs’, a handbook on the politics and economics of
the Arab World, edited by Ian Hoare and Graham Tayar,
Middle East Economic Digest and BBC
1971 1 booklet
11/3 ‘The Arab World’, 16 boxed pamphlets on The League of Not dated 16
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Arab States and its 14 members plus Palestine, published
by the League, undated.
booklets
12 Walking in Oman
12/1 Letter from M St.C. Baddely (Sultanate of Oman, Research
Department) to Major Charles Hepworth giving a
suggested route and timings for a walk Major Hepworth
proposed to make over the Jebel Shams
‘Route from al-Hamra to Murri, Jabal al- Akhdar’, ORD
letter dated 10 Jun 1977 and subsequent report (photostat
copy of hand written report for typing).
10 Jun 1977 2 sheets
12/2 Photocopy of a MS report with maps [by Charles
Hepworth] giving corrections to maps following his walk
from Jibal Shams to Jabal Al Akhdar
[1977] 8 sheets
13 UK Hydrographic Office
13/1 Correspondence with the UK Hydrographic Office and 42
Survey Engineer Group, regarding a correction to the
‘Supplement to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot’ and
Omani mapping
Jun 1998 6 sheets
14 Slides
Digital copies of 35mm colour slides. Captions provided
by Charles Hepworth.
System of Arrangement:
1962-1971 201 items
14/1 Morocco Oct-Nov 1966 58 items
14/2 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS)
Expedition to the Hadhramaut,
Dec 1962-
Jan 1963
95 items
14/3 Sultanate of Muscat and Oman 1970-1971 10 items
14/4 Money Exchange Briefing Team: Sharquiyah and
Ja’alan
Apr 1970 10 items
14/5 Money Exchange Briefing Team: Sharquiyah and
Ja’alan
May 1970 28 items
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14/1 Morocco
Photographs by Charles Hepworth
Old Ref: Box 1/1-58
Oct-Nov
1966
58 items
14/1/1 Tangier, tourist official with street performers
14/1/2 Tangier, tourist official with street performers
14/1/3 Marrakech, Place Jamaa al-Fna and Koutobia
Mosque
14/1/4 Marrakech, Place Jamaa al-Fna, storyteller
14/1/5 Marrakech, Place Jamaa al-Fna, water carriers
14/1/6 Marrakech, backstreet(s)
14/1/7 Marrakech, backstreet(s)
14/1/8 Roadside restaurant between Marrakech and
Tizni n’Tichka Pass.
14/1/9 Tizni n’Tichka Pass
14/1/10 Bus stop between Tizni n’Tichka Pass and
Ouarzazate
14/1/11 Wadi Dra, looking south to Ouarzazate
14/1/12 Ouarzazate
14/1/13 Ouarzazate
14/1/14 Ouarzazate
14/1/15 Ouarzazate
14/1/16 Tagounit, Barracks of 3rd
Camel Company
14/1/17 Tagounit, washer woman
14/1/18 Tagounit, Wadi Dra
14/1/19 Tagounit, bus stop
14/1/20 Tagounit, road sign to Timbuktu
14/1/21 Tagounit, from the south
14/1/22 Wadi Dra south of Tagounit
14/1/23 Wadi Dra south of Tagounit
14/1/24 Ruined village south of Tagounit
14/1/25 Sand dunes outside M’hamid
14/1/26 Nomad encampment outside M’hamid,
containing some long term refugees from the
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brief Moroccan/Algerian border conflict of
1963
14/1/27 Nomad encampment outside M’hamid,
containing some long term refugees from the
brief Moroccan/Algerian border conflict of
1963
14/1/28 Nomad encampment outside M’hamid,
containing some long term refugees from the
brief Moroccan/Algerian border conflict of
1963
14/1/29 Crossing point on the Wadi Dra at M’hamid
14/1/30 M’hamid from the south
14/1/31 M’hamid, village men of the ait-Atta tribe
14/1/32 M’hamid, army barracks
14/1/33 M’hamid, donkey park
14/1/34 M’hamid, camel park
14/1/35 M’hamid, camel park
14/1/36 M’hamid, market
14/1/37 M’hamid, ait-Atta
14/1/38 Eastern slopes of the High Atlas
14/1/39 Looking towards the Tizni n’Tichka pass from
the south
14/1/40 Marrackech, back street
14/1/41 Marrakech, wool dyers’ suq
14/1/42 The Spanish enclave of Sidi Ifni viewed from
Morocco
14/1/43 Irrigation and stock reservoir outside the
former, deserted Sidi Ifni border post
14/1/44 Sidi Ifni, bullet holed border sign, evidence of
the failed Moroccan attack of 1957
14/1/45 Sidi Ifni, rock pool in no man’s land
14/1/46 Sidi Ifni, war damaged and deserted Spanish
border post
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14/1/47 Sidi Ifni, war damaged and deserted Spanish
border post
14/1/48 Sidi Ifni, war damaged and deserted Spanish
border post
14/1/49 Ait Bella tents inside a thorn boma, north of
Goulimine
14/1/50 Modern Goulimine, with the old town in the
background
14/1/51 Goulimine, ait-Bella tribesmen driving camels
to market
14/1/52 Goulimine, ait-Bella tribesmen driving camels
to market
14/1/53 Goulimine, ait-Bella tribesmen driving camels
to market
14/1/54 Goulimine, ait-Bella tribesmen driving camels
to market
14/1/55 Goulimine, ait-Bella tribesmen driving camels
to market
14/1/56 Atlantic coast north of Agadir
14/1/57 Atlantic coast north of Agadir
14/1/58 North of Agadir, caravan halt on the beach
14/2 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) Expedition
to the Hadhramaut,
Photography by Officer Cadets
Related material: 15/1 Report of Sandhurst Expedition to the
Hadramaut
Dec 1962-
Jan 1963
112 items
14/2/1 Mermaid Club, Steamer Point, Aden
Old Ref: Box 1 no 59
14/2/2 Federal Regular Army (FRA) Camp,
Seedaseer Lines, Aden
Old Ref: Box 1 no 60
14/2/3 Back street(s), Steamer Point, Aden
Old Ref: Box 1 no 61
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14/2/4 Back street(s), Steamer Point, Aden
Old Ref: Box 1 no 62
14/2/5 Western Aden Protectorate, Ataq, airstrip
Old Ref: Box 1 no 63
14/2/6 Western Aden Protectorate, Ataq, airstrip
Old Ref: Box 1 no 64
14/2/7 Western Aden Protectorate, Ataq, airstrip
Old Ref: Box 1 no 65
14/2/8 Western Aden Protectorate, FRA fort and
camp
Old Ref: Box 1 no 66
14/2/9 Western Aden Protectorate, FRA fort and
camp
Old Ref: Box 1 no 67
14/2/10 Western Aden Protectorate, FRA fort and
camp
Old Ref: Box 1 no 68
14/2/11 Western Aden Protectorate, FRA fort and
camp
Old Ref: Box 1 no 69
14/2/12 Western Aden Protectorate, FRA fort and
camp
Old Ref: Box 1 no 70
14/2/13 Western Aden Protectorate, Citrullus
Colocynthis or bitter cucumber
Old Ref: Box 1 no 71
14/2/14 Western Aden Protectorate, desert between
Ataq and Haib Milh salt mine
Old Ref: Box 1 no 72
14/2/15 Western Aden Protectorate, desert between
Ataq and Haib Milh salt mine
Old Ref: Box 1 no 73
14/2/16 Western Aden Protectorate, desert between
Ataq and Haib Milh salt mine
Old Ref: Box 1 no 74
14/2/17 Western Aden Protectorate, the prehistoric salt
mine of Haib Milh with Federal National
Guardsmen (FNG) guarding the mine
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14/2/18 Western Aden Protectorate, south of al-‘Uqla,
vehicle maintenance
Old Ref: Box 1 no 76
14/2/19 Western Aden Protectorate, al-‘Uqla, a
ritualistic site of the early kings of the
Hadhramaut, 10 miles west of their former
capital at Shabwah
Old Ref: Box 1 no 77
14/2/20 Western Aden Protectorate, al-‘Uqla, a
ritualistic site of the early kings of the
Hadhramaut, 10 miles west of their former
capital at Shabwah
Old Ref: Box 1 no 78
14/2/21 Western Aden Protectorate, al-‘Uqla, some of
the over 100 Himyaritic inscriptions
Old Ref: Box 1 no 79
14/2/22 Western Aden Protectorate,, outside Shabwa
Old Ref: Box 1 no 80
14/2/23 Western Aden Protectorate, outside Shabwa
Old Ref: Box 1 no 81
14/2/24 Western Aden Protectorate, failing to negotiate
access to Shabwa with members of the Karab
tribe
Old Ref: Box 1 no 82
14/2/25 Western Aden Protectorate, resupply by
Auster outside Shabwa
Old Ref: Box 1 no 83
14/2/26 Western Aden Protectorate, resupply by
Auster outside Shabwa
Old Ref: Box 1 no 84
14/2/27 Western Aden Protectorate, camp in the
Ramlat Sabatain
Old Ref: Box 1 no 85
14/2/28 Western Aden Protectorate, camp in the
Ramlat Sabatain
Old Ref: Box 1 no 86
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14/2/29 Western Aden Protectorate, crossing low
dunes in the Ramlat Sabatain
Old Ref: Box 1 no 87
14/2/30 Western Aden Protectorate, Ramlat Sabatain,
Karab encampment
Old Ref: Box 1 no 88
14/2/31 Western Aden Protectorate, Ramlat Sabatain,
Karab tribesmen sacrificing a sheep
Old Ref: Box 1 no 89
14/2/32 Western Aden Protectorate, Ramlat Sabatain,
sheep hung in a Karab tent for skinning
Old Ref: Box 1 no 90
14/2/33 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan road
Old Ref: Box 1 no 91
14/2/34 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan road
Old Ref: Box 1 no 92
14/2/35 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan road
Old Ref: Box 1 no 93
14/2/36 Western Aden Protectorate, Wadi Beihan
Old Ref: Box 1 no 94
14/2/37 Western Aden Protectorate, Wadi Beihan
Old Ref: Box 1 no 95
14/2/38 Western Aden Protectorate, Wadi Beihan
Old Ref: Box 1 no 96
14/2/39 Western Aden Protectorate, Wadi Beihan
Old Ref: Box 1 no 97
14/2/40 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan.
Old Ref: Box 1 no 98
14/2/41 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan,
ammunition belt shop.
Old Ref: Box 1 no 99
14/2/42 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan, palm oil
seed milling
Old Ref: Box 1 no 100
14/2/43 West Aden Protectorate, Beihan, plough oxen
Old Ref: Box 2 no 1
14/2/44 West Aden Protectorate, Beihan, carting straw
Old Ref: Box 2 no 2
14/2/45 West Aden Protectorate, Beihan.
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14/2/46 West Aden Protectorate, Beihan,mainly non-
tribal Beihani townspeople
Old Ref: Box 2 no 4
14/2/47 West Aden Protectorate, Wadi Beihan,
Neguib, civilian refugees from the Republican
bombing of the Royalist towns of Harib and
Marib in North Yemen
Old Ref: Box 2 no 5
14/2/48 West Aden Protectorate, Wadi Beihan,
Neguib, civilian refugees from the Republican
bombing of the Royalist towns of Harib and
Marib in North Yemen
Old Ref: Box 2 no 6
14/2/49 West Aden Protectorate, Wadi Beihan,
Neguib, watering a refugee’s thirsty camel
Old Ref: Box 2 no 7
14/2/50 West Aden Protectorate, Beihan road, broken
down native truck (former army three ton
vehicle)
Old Ref: Box 2 no 8
14/2/51 West Aden Protectorate, evening near al-‘Uqla
Old Ref: Box 2 no 9
14/2/52 West Aden Protectorate, re-supply by Twin
Pioneer near al-‘Uqla
Old Ref: Box 2 no 10
14/2/53 Border between the West and East Aden
Protectorates, abandoned tribal canon
Old Ref: Box 2 no 11
14/2/54 East Aden Protectorate, police post at Bar al-
Saka
Old Ref: Box 2 no 12
14/2/55 East Aden Protectorate, police post at Bar al-
Saka
Old Ref: Box 2 no 13
14/2/56 East Aden Protectorate, the 200 foot deep,
prehistoric well at Bar al-Saka
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Old Ref: Box 2 no 14
14/2/57 East Aden Protectorate, government rest house
at al-Qatn
Old Ref: Box 2 no 15
14/2/58 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
approaching Shibaum
Old Ref: Box 2 no 16
14/2/59 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, the
‘skyscraper city’ of Shibam
Old Ref: Box 2 no 17
14/2/60 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, the
‘skyscraper city’ of Shibam
Old Ref: Box 2 no 18
14/2/61 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, the
‘skyscraper city’ of Shibam
Old Ref: Box 2 no 19
14/2/62 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, the
‘skyscraper city’ of Shibam
Old Ref: Box 2 no 20
14/2/63 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, the
‘skyscraper city’ of Shibam
Old Ref: Box 2 no 21
14/2/64 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, the
‘skyscraper city’ of Shibam
Old Ref: Box 2 no 22
14/2/65 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, the
‘skyscraper city’ of Shibam
Old Ref: Box 2 no 23
14/2/66 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
between Shibam and Saiwun
Old Ref: Box 2 no 24
14/2/67 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
Saiwun
Old Ref: Box 2 no 25
14/2/68 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
village outside Saiwun
Old Ref: Box 2 no 26
14/2/69 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
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Saiwun
Old Ref: Box 2 no 27
14/2/70 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
Saiwun, palatial ‘Javan’ merchant’s house.
Old Ref: Box 2 no 28
14/2/71 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
between Saiwun and Tarim
Old Ref: Box 2 no 29
14/2/72 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
camel caravan
Old Ref: Box 2 no 30
14/2/73 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, a
small mosque in Tarim
Old Ref: Box 2 no 31
14/2/74 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
entrance to a merchant’s house with sentry
box.
Old Ref: Box 2 no 32
14/2/75 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, al-
Mihdhar Mosque Tarim
Old Ref: Box 2 no 33
14/2/76 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
police post between Tarim and Marsibat al-
Silma
Old Ref: Box 2 no 34
14/2/77 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Masila,
farmland near Qabr Hud (tomb of the Prophet
Hud)
Old Ref: Box 2 no 35
14/2/78 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Masila, pilgrims
of the Manahil tribe on their way to the
religious festival and fair (ziara) at Qabr Hud
Old Ref: Box 2 no 36
14/2/79 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,
commercial desert landing strip between
Saiwun and Tarim
Old Ref: Box 2 no 37
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14/2/80 The bleak tableland (djol) between Wadi
Hadhramaut and the coast with the Arabian
Sea at Shihir
Old Ref: Box 2 no 38
14/2/82 The bleak tableland (djol) between Wadi
Hadhramaut and the coast with the Arabian
Sea at Shihir
Old Ref: Box 2 no 39
14/2/83 East Aden Protectorate, crossing Wadi’ Adim
at Ma’adi
Old Ref: Box 2 no 40
14/2/84 East Aden Protectorate, crossing Wadi’ Adim
at Ma’adi
Old Ref: Box 2 no 41
14/2/85 East Aden Protectorate, the Arabian Sea near
Riyan
Old Ref: Box 2 no 42
14/2/86 East Aden Protectorate, the Arabian Sea near
Riyan
Old Ref: Box 2 no 43
14/2/87 East Aden Protectorate, outskirts of Mukalla
Old Ref: Box 2 no 44
14/2/88 East Aden Protectorate, the coastal town of
Mukalla
Old Ref: Box 2 no 45
14/2/89 East Aden Protectorate, the coast at evening
west of Mukalla
Old Ref: Box 2 no 46
14/2/90 East Aden Protectorate, recuperating Arab
horse at Maifa Hajar Agricultural Centre
Old Ref: Box 2 no 47
14/2/91 East Aden Protectorate, the ancient walled city
of Naqb al-Hajar (or Mayfa’at)
Old Ref: Box 2 no 48
14/2/92 East Aden Protectorate, the ancient walled city
of Naqb al-Hajar (or Mayfa’at)
Old Ref: Box 2 no 49
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14/2/93 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Maifa’a
Old Ref: Box 2 no 50
14/2/94 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Maifa’a
Old Ref: Box 2 no 51
14/2/95 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Maifa’a
Old Ref: Box 2 no 52
14/2/96 Jabrin fort, view from the roof to Jabal Khawr
Old Ref: Box 5 no 1
14/2/97 Jabrin fort, view from the roof to Jabal Khawr
Old Ref: Box 5 no 2
14/2/98 Jabrin fort, Portuguese canon
Old Ref: Box 5 no 3
14/2/99 Jabrin fort
Old Ref: Box 5 no 4
14/2/100 Jabrin fort,
Old Ref: Box 5 no 5
14/2/101 Pre-Dhufar training area at Jabrin,
approximating Dhufari terrain of jabal and
bush
Old Ref: Box 5 no 6
14/2/102 Pre-Dhufar training area at Jabrin,
approximating Dhufari terrain of jabal and
bush
Old Ref: Box 5 no 7
14/2/103 Training in cliff assault and abseiling
Old Ref: Box 5 no 8
14/2/104 Training in cliff assault and abseiling
Old Ref: Box 5 no 9
14/2/105 Training in cliff assault and abseiling
Old Ref: Box 5 no 10
14/2/106 Izki army camp
Old Ref: Box 5 no 11
14/2/107 Sharjah, Trucial Oman Scouts piper
Old Ref: Box 5 no 12
14/2/108 Dubai Creek, passenger ferries or bum-boats
Old Ref: Box 5 no 13
14/2/109 Dubai Creek, passenger ferries or bum-boats
Old Ref: Box 5 no 14
14/2/110 Capt. Ian Johnson, DIO Rustaq, and the
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featureless Gulf coast, between Dubai and
Abu-Dhabi
Old Ref: Box 5 no 15
14/2/111 Salt marsh (sebkha), east of Abu-Dhabi (Capt.
Charles Hepworth)
Old Ref: Box 5 no 16
14/2/112 Abu-Dhabi, al-‘Ain, the Abu-Dhabi Defence
Force (ADDF) fort at Jahili
Old Ref: Box 5 no 17
14/3 Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
Photographs by Charles Hepworth
1970-1971 119 items
14/3/1 Suma’il Fort from the air
Old Ref: Box 2 no 53
14/3/2 Al-Hazm Fort
Old Ref: Box 2 no 54
14/3/3 Rustaq Fort
Old Ref: Box 2 no 55
14/3/4 ‘Awabi Fort, garrisoned by a platoon detached from the company base
at Rustaq
Old Ref: Box 2 no 56
14/3/5 Hot spring at Rustaq
Old Ref: Box 2 no 57
14/3/6 Hot spring at Rustaq
Old Ref: Box 2 no 58
14/3/7 Camel Spider
Old Ref: Box 2 no 59
14/3/8 Dhows off Matrah Bay
Old Ref: Box 2 no 60
14/3/9 Sea front at Matrah
Old Ref: Box 2 no 61
14/3/10 Wadi Suma’il, part of ‘B’ Coy Northern Frontier Regiment’s (NFR)
road move from Rustaq to Izki, April 1970
Old Ref: Box 2 no 62
14/3/11-14 Sur, the creek
Old Ref: Box 3 no 3 to 6
14/3/15 Sur, the creek, dhow nakhoda (ship’s captain)
Old Ref: Box 3 no 7
14/3/16-17 Wadi al-Batha, beaver aircraft supplying new money
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Old Ref: Box 3 no 8 and 9
14/3/18-20 Quriyat, the fort.
Old Ref: Box 3 no 10 -12
14/3/21-22 Quriyat, the fort, wali’s askars
Old Ref: Box 3 no 13 and 14
14/3/23-24 Quriyat, the beach
Old Ref: Box 3 no 15 and 16
14/3/25 Quriyat, the beach, shoreline fisherman with his catch
Old Ref: Box 3 no 17
14/3/26-28 Qurityat, the souq
Old Ref: Box 3 no 18-20
14/3/29 Quriyat, the fish souq
Old Ref: Box 3 no 21
14/3/30-32 Direct route up Jabal al-‘Akhdar from Izki. Izki in the background
Old Ref: Box 4 no 1 and 2
14/3/32-39 Eastern end of the Jabal al-‘Akhdar, above Izki
Old Ref: Box 4 no 3 to 9
14/3/39 Sunset in Wadi Halfain, goatherd returning to the fold
Old Ref: Box 4 no 10
14/3/40-41 NFR mortar concentration at Izki camp, augmented by instructors from
Scots Guards at Sharjah
Old Ref: Box 4 no 11 and 12
14/3/42 Donkey Handlers at Izki Camp
Old Ref: Box 4 no 13
14/3/43-44 Wadiu bani Habib, the nearest permanent swimming pools to Izki
Old Ref: Box 4 no 14 and 15
14/3/45 Birqat al-Mauz, the falaj
Old Ref: Box 4 no 16
14/3/46 Storm over Izki Camp
Old Ref: Box 4 no 17
14/3/47 Storm over Izki
Old Ref: Box 4 no 18
14/3/48 Arch decorated in advance of Sultan Qabus’ arrival in Muscat on 30
Jul 1970
Old Ref: Box 4 no 19
14/3/49 Dhows off Matrah
Old Ref: Box 4 no 20
14/3/50-51 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Donkey handler on the Persian steps above Muti and
Manakhir
Old Ref: Box 4 no 31 and 32
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14/3/52-54 Jabal al-‘Akhdar from above the Persian steps to Shuraijah
Old Ref: Box 4 no 33 to 35
14/3/55-61 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Shuraijah
Old Ref: Box 4 no 36-42
14/3/62 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Shuraijah, RAF bomb casing from the Jabal al-
‘Akhdar War of 1959
Old Ref: Box 4 no 43
14/3/63-64 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Shuraijah
Old Ref: Box 4 no 44 and 45
14/3/65-70 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Shuraijah to Saiq Camp
Old Ref: Box 4 no 46 to 51
14/3/71-72 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Saiq Camp, cookhouse, baking bread
Old Ref: Box 4 no 52-53
14/3/73-74 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Saiq Camp, donkey handlers undergoing weapon
training
Old Ref: Box 4 no 54-55
14/3/75-76 Izki Camp, Scots Guards Pipes and Drums from Sharjah entertain all
ranks ‘B’ Company, NFR
Old Ref: Box 4 no 56-57
14/3/77 Izki Camp, sand grouse trapped by soldiers
Old Ref: Box 4 no58
14/3/78 Wadi Halfain, flash flood
Old Ref: Box 4 no 59
14/3/79 Izki from the Ssouth
Old Ref: Box 4 no 60
14/3/80 Izki Camp, cookhouse, baking bread
Old Ref: Box 4 no 61
14/3/81 Izki from the south
Old Ref: Box 4 no 62
14/3/82-83 Izki, palm groves
Old Ref: Box 4 no 63 and 64
14/3/84 Izki, Capt Tony Artus and soldiers of ‘B’ Company, NFR, carrying out
road maintenance after a flash flood
Old Ref: Box 4 no 65
14/3/85 Jabal Rashid, between Izki and Jabrin, Capt Tony Artus
Old Ref: Box 4 no 66
14/3/86-87 Jabal Rashid
Old Ref: Box 4 no 67 and 68
14/3/88-92 Jabal Rashid, the brackish pools that sometimes support duck and
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bring in flights of sand grouse
Old Ref: Box 4 no 69 to 73
14/3/93 Izki Camp, carpenter repairing storm damage takes an unofficial siesta
on the Officers’ Mess veranda
Old Ref: Box 4 no 74
14/3/94 Izki, small scorpion
Old Ref: Box 4 no 75 to 76
14/3/96 Helicopter landing on the pad at Izki Camp
Old Ref: Box 4 no 77
14/3/97-102 Izki from the air
Old Ref: Box 4 no 78 to 83
14/3/103-108 Jabrin
Old Ref: Box 4 no 84 to 89
14/3/109-110 Duru salt caravan passing Jabrin
Old Ref: Box 4 no 90 and 91
14/3/111 Outside Jabrin, camel carcass by the Duru salt route
Old Ref: Box 4 no 92
14/3/112 Outside Jabrin, pre-Dhufar training camp of ‘B’ Coy, NFR
Old Ref: Box 4 no 93
14/3/113 Outside Jabrin, pre-Dhufar training camp of ‘B’ Coy, NFR
Old Ref: Box 4 no 94
14/3/114 Jabrin fort
Old Ref: Box 4 no 95
14/3/115 Jabrin fort, ‘B’ Company, NFR, NCOs with a wali’s askar, on the roof
of Jabrin fort
Old Ref: Box 4 no 96
14/3/116-119 Jabrin fort, view from the roof
Old Ref: Box 4 no 97-100
14/4 Money Exchange Briefing Team: Sharquiyah and Ja’alan
Sultan’s Armed Forces (SAF) Money Exchange Briefing
Team and ‘B’ Company NFR Escort, to the Sharquiyah
and Ja’alan Provinces
Apr 1970 10 items
14/4/1 Sharquiyah Apr 1970 5 items
14/4/1/1 Ibra
Old Ref: Box 2 no 63
14/4/1/2 Al-Mintirib
Old Ref: Box 2 no 64
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14/4/1/3 Al-Mintirib
Old Ref: Box 2 no 65
14/4/1/4 Wadi al-Batha, on route to al-
Kamil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 66
14/4/1/5 Al-Kamil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 67
14/4/2 Ja’alan Apr 1970 5 items
14/4/2/1 Road to Sur
Old Ref: Box 2 no 68
14/4/2/2 Sur creek
Old Ref: Box 2 no 69
14/4/2/3 Sur creek
Old Ref: Box 2 no 70
14/4/2/4 Sur al-Sahil, looking east across
the creek to al-Ayjah
Old Ref: Box 2 no 71
14/4/2/5 Well outside Bilad Sur
Old Ref: Box 2 no 72
14/5 Money Exchange Briefing Team: Sharquiyah and Ja’alan
British Bank of the Middle East Money Exchange Team
and ‘B’ Coy NFR Escort, to the Sharquiyah and Ja’alan
Provinces
May 1970 28 items
14/5/1 Sharquiyah May 1970 19 items
14/5/1/1 Wadi Tayin
Old Ref: Box 2 no 73
14/5/1/2 Wadi Tayin
Old Ref: Box 2 no 74
14/5/1/3 Wadi Tayin
Old Ref: Box 2 no 75
14/5/1/4 ‘Ibra
Old Ref: Box 2 no 76
14/5/1/5 ‘Ibra
Old Ref: Box 2 no 77
14/5/1/6 ‘Ibra
Old Ref: Box 2 no 78
14/5/1/7 ‘Ibra
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14/5/1/8 Al-Mintirib, local notables
waiting to change their money
Old Ref: Box 2 no 80
14/5/1/9 Al-Mintirib
Old Ref: Box 2 no 81
14/5/1/10 Al-Mintirib
Old Ref: Box 2 no 82
14/5/1/11 Al-Mintirib
Old Ref: Box 2 no 83
14/5/1/12 Al-Mintirib
Old Ref: Box 2 no 84
14/5/1/13 Al-Mintirib
Old Ref: Box 2 no 85
14/5/1/14 Al-Mintirib, palm leave weavers,
using their time gainfully, at the
end of the money-changing
queue
Old Ref: Box 2 no 86
14/5/1/15 Al-Kamil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 87
14/5/1/16 Al-Kamil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 88
14/5/1/17 Al-Kamil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 89
14/5/1/18 Al-Kamil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 90
14/5/1/19 Al-Kamil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 91
14/5/1/20 Al-Kamil, view from the fort
Old Ref: Box 3 no 1
14/5/1/21 Al-Kamil, queue-control
Old Ref: Box 3 no 2
1/4/5/2 Ja’alan May 1970 9 items
14/5/2/1 The Money Exchange Team, at
the boundary of bani bu-‘Ali
tribal territory
Old Ref: Box 2 no 92
14/5/2/2 Wadi al-Batha, a Hikmani
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exchanges his money
Old Ref: Box 2 no 93
14/5/2/3 Bilad Sur, abandoned fort
Old Ref: Box 2 no 94
14/5/2/4 Approach to Sur al-Sahil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 95
14/5/2/5 Custom’s [sic] House at Sur al-
Sahil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 96
14/5/2/6 Sur al-Sahil
Old Ref: Box 2 no 97
14/5/2/7 Younger son of the Wali of Sur
Old Ref: Box 2 no 98
14/5/2/8 Younger son of the Wali of Sur
Old Ref: Box 2 no 99
14/5/2/9 Sur al-Sahil, donkey park
Old Ref: Box 2 no 100
14/6 Operations by ‘B’ Company of the Northeren Frontier
Regiment (NFR) against The National Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf
(NDFLOAG), from June to September 1970
June to
September
1970
8 slides
14/6/1 Dawn 12 June, view from Izki Camp, to the
small jubail (in the centre of the picture),
from where NDFLOAG opened fire on the
barracks at 0317 hours
Old Ref: Box 3 no 22
14/6/2 1000 hours, 12 June, HQ NFR’s lead Baluchi
tracker identifies identifies an enemy
footprint in the upper Wadi Halfain, beside
the Petroleum Development (PDO) graded
road through the Sama’il Gap
Old Ref: Box 3 no 23
14/6/3 1030 hours 12 June, RSM Marhoon Salmeen
Batti, his driver and his tracker, examine
arms and equipment jettisoned by the retiring
enemy at the point in the Wadi Halfrain
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where they rendezvoused with their guide,
donkey handler and pack donkey
Old Ref: Box 3 no 24
14/6/4 1545 hours 12 June, Sgt Salim, the Baluchi
PI Comd, on the Wadis Halfain/Andam
watershed. The small wadi behind drains
into the Wadi Halfain
Old Ref: Box 3 no 25
14/6/5 Dusk 12 June, after contact, the NDFLOAG
dead and wounded collected centrally, in
Wadi Mukaysa (corrected on modern maps
to Muksa), for body search and medical
treatment
Old Ref: Box 3 no 26
14/6/6 1000 hours 13 June, some of the NDFLOAG
arms and equipment bundled for back
loading to Izki. The bare ankles belong to
NDFLOAG prisoners
Old Ref: Box 3 no 27
14/6/7-8 15 June, HQ NFR, Bidbid, QM NFR and his
arms’ storemen recording the NDFLOAG
weapons captured by ‘B’ Company and the
following HQ NFR Support Column
Old Ref: Box 3 no 28 and 29
14/7 Operations by ‘B’ Company of the Northeren Frontier
Regiment (NFR) against The National Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf
(NDFLOAG), from June to September 1970
June to
September
1970
71 slides
14/7/1 Patrol Halt
Old Ref: Box 3 no 30
14/7/2-3 Ruwaihi shepherd boy
Old Ref: Box 3 no 31 and 32
14/7/4 Breakfast halt
Old Ref: Box 3 no 33
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14/7/5-6 Summit of Jabal al-Khadra, between wadis
Mukaysa and Mahram
Old Ref: Box 3 no 34 and 35
14/7/7 Midday halt in the shade of a wild date-
palm grove. The guide, the Wali of Izki’s
son, is second from right
Old Ref: Box 3 no 36
14/7/8 Unexpected water hole. (Re-supply was
found to be unnecessary as food, from
huyool or gardens, on repayment, and
waterholes were sufficient for patrol needs)
Old Ref: Box 3 no 37
14/7/9 Night halt on a mountain pass
Old Ref: Box 3 no 38
14/7/10 Waterhole
Old Ref: Box 3 no 39
14/7/11-12 Remote, nomad graveyard
Old Ref: Box 3 no 40 and 41
14/7/13-14 Picking mangoes for the patrol in a hayl or
garden
Old Ref: Box 3 no 42 and 43
14/7/15 Cultivator in a small farm (and an
occasional NDFLOAG hide), in the upper
Wadi Mahram
Old Ref: Box 3 no 44
14/7/16 Nizwa, silver suq
Old Ref: Box 3 no 45
14/7/17-18 Nizwa, suq
Old Ref: Box 3 no 46 and 47
14/7/10 Nizwa, round tower
Old Ref: Box 3 no 48
14/7/20-23 Nizwa, interior of round tower
Old Ref: Box 3 no 49-52
14/7/24 Nizwa, view from round tower
Old Ref: Box 3 no 53
14/7/25 Izki, window to the wali’s majlis or
reception room
Old Ref: Box 3 no 54
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14/7/26 Izki, wali’s house and family
Old Ref: Box 3 no 55
14/7/27 Night halt (Next day’s objective is on the
skyline)
Old Ref: Box 3 no 56
14/7/28 Midday halt
Old Ref: Box 3 no 57
14/7/29-32 Shepherds (shuwaan) of the bani Ruwaha
drawing water for their flocks with a
primitive shaduf, from a pool in a tributary
off the upper Wadi Mahram
Old Ref: Box 3 no 58 to 61
14/7/33 Deserted Ruwaihi fareeq (seasonal
hut/campsite)
Old Ref: Box 3 no 62
14/7/34 Midday halt
Old Ref: Box 3 no 63
14/7/35 The mountain in the distance is the next
day’s objective
Old Ref: Box 3 no 64
14/7/36 Communication’s halt
Old Ref: Box 3 no 65
14/7/37 Evening on a waterhole, the day’s objective
is still on the skyline
Old Ref: Box 3 no 66
14/7/38 Ruwaihi grazing ground
Old Ref: Box 3 no 67
14/7/39 Yet another objective on the skyline
Old Ref: Box 3 no 68
14/7/40 Climbine out of Wadi Sama’il, into the
tribal territory of the al-Siyabiyeen, with
Jabal al-‘Akhdar in the background
Old Ref: Box 3 no 69
14/7/41 Jabal al’Akhdar slabs from the northern
Sharquiya. Seemingly sterile terrain in the
northern Sharquiya often concealed
Old Ref: Box 3 no 70
14/7/42 Grassy wadis
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Old Ref: Box 3 no 71
14/7/43 Wild, fruiting date groves
Old Ref: Box 3 no 72
14/7/44-45 And water
Old Ref: Box 3 no 73 and 74
14/7/46 Impressed Siyabi ‘recogniser’
Old Ref: Box 3 no 75
14/7/47 Muscat
Old Ref: BIzki fortox 3 no 76
14/7/48-49 Izki fort
Old Ref: Box 3 no 77 and 78
14/7/50-51 ‘Draculus,’ an immature Egyptian vulture
and the pet of Dick Candlish, a PDO Tribal
Liaison Officer at Izki
Old Ref: Box 3 no 79 and 80
14/7/52 Izki Camp airstrip, ‘Ali bin Talib, a ‘B’
Company NFR 14 year old mess boy, riding
‘Samha bint Farahah’ and ‘Umaniya riding
camel.
Old Ref: Box 3 no 81
14/7/53 Khalfan, the Wali of Izki’s desert guide and
tracker, in the Wadi Halfain south east of
Izki
Old Ref: Box 3 no 82
14/7/54 Khalfan in the Wadi Halfain
Old Ref: Box 3 no 83
14/7/55 Khalfan leading his camel through a pass
between Wadis Halfrain and Mukaysa
Old Ref: Box 3 no 84
14/7/56 Wadi Sama’il
Old Ref: Box 3 no 85
14/7/57 Matrah suq
Old Ref: Box 3 no 86
14/7/58 NDFLOAG prisoner leading to an
NDFLOAG arms’ cache in a tributary of
the Wadi Halfain, south east of Izki
Old Ref: Box 3 no 87
14/7/59 Part of the arm’s cache exposed
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Old Ref: Box 3 no 88
14/7/60 The campsite caravan halt at B’ir al-
Hamaid, between Manah and Adam
Old Ref: Box 3 no 89
14/7/61 Samha, at B’ir al-Hamaid, she always
returned to camp at dawn for saddling
Old Ref: Box 3 no 90
14/7/62 Khalfan and camels enjoy a noon siesta
near Adam
Old Ref: Box 3 no 91
14/7/63 Below Jabal Salakh, registering targets
during the reconnaissance for NFR’s
Mortar concentration
Old Ref: Box 3 no 92
14/7/64 At the Falaj outside Adam, Duru Bedouin
washing date-palm fibre, used as padding in
camel saddles
Old Ref: Box 3 no 93
14/7/65 Caravan halt outside Adam, Duru salt
caravan overnighting
Old Ref: Box 3 no 94
14/7/66 Adam, the suq
Old Ref: Box 3 no 95
14/7/67-68 Duru women gathering wood outside Adam
Old Ref: Box 3 no 96 and 97
14/7/69 Izki, from the south
Old Ref: Box 3 no 98
14/7/70-71 Direct donkey track up Jabal al-Akhdar
from Izki
Old Ref: Box 3 no 99 and 100
14/8 Bahrein Undated 10 slides
14/8/1-4 Bahrein
Old Ref: Box 4 no 21-24
14/8/5-7 Dhows off Bahrein
Old Ref: Box 4 no 25-27
14/8/8-9 Bahrein, Manama, Caulking a small dhow
on the beach of Reef Island
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Old Ref: Box 4 no 28-29
14/8/10 Bahrein, Manama Dhow Harbour
Old Ref: Box 4 no 30
14/9 Dhufar War, 1971 1971 118 slides
14/9/1 Salalah from the air
Old Ref: Box 5 no 18
14/9/2 Jabal Qura from the air
Old Ref: Box 5 no 19
14/9/3 Jabal Qura from the air
Old Ref: Box 5 no 20
14/9/4 Wadi Haluf from the air
Old Ref: Box 5 no 21
14/9/5 The Northern Frontier Regiment’s (NFR)
camp at Haluf from the air
Old Ref: Box 5 no 22
14/9/6 The Northern Frontier Regiment’s (NFR)
camp at Haluf from the air
Old Ref: Box 5 no 23
14/9/7 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR lines, Maj. Peter
Gordon Smith (left) and Capt. Ian Leslie
(centre)
Old Ref: Box 5 no 24
14/9/8 Haluf, HQ NFR prisoner pen, suspected
PFLOAG militiamen
Old Ref: Box 5 no 25
14/9/9 Haluf, interior of ‘B’ Company NFR Officer’s
Mess tent
Old Ref: Box 5 no 26
14/9/10 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR Officer’s Mess tent,
Maj Peter Gordon Smith
Old Ref: Box 5 no 27
14/9/11 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR Officer’s Mess tent,
Maj Peter Gordon Smith and ‘Ali bin Talib, a
mess boy
Old Ref: Box 5 no 28
14/9/12 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR Officer’s Mess tent,
Capt Charles Hepworth
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Old Ref: Box 5 no 29
14/9/13 ‘B’ Company NFR mess boy, ‘Ali Bin Talib
Old Ref: Box 5 no 30
14/9/14 Mist in Wadi Haluf, with Jabal Qara under
cloud on the horizon
Old Ref: Box 5 no 31
14/9/15 Mist in Wadi Haluf, with Jabal Qara under
cloud on the horizon
Old Ref: Box 5 no 32
14/9/16 Mist in Wadi Haluf, with Jabal Qara under
cloud on the horizon
Old Ref: Box 5 no 33
14/9/17 Mist in Wadi Haluf, with Jabal Qara under
cloud on the horizon
Old Ref: Box 5 no 34
14/9/18 Haluf, HQ NFR tentage
Old Ref: Box 5 no 35
14/9/19 Haluf, HQ NFR tentage
Old Ref: Box 5 no 36
14/9/20 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR, holding down
tentage in a storm
Old Ref: Box 5 no 37
14/9/21 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR mess boy
Old Ref: Box 5 no 38
14/9/22 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR WO’s and Sgt’s
Mess tent
Old Ref: Box 5 no 39
14/9/23 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR eid celebrations,
Baluchi machine gun dance with live rounds
Old Ref: Box 5 no 40
14/9/24 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR eid celebrations,
Baluchi machine gun dance with live rounds
Old Ref: Box 5 no41
14/9/25 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR eid celebrations
Old Ref: Box 5 no 42
14/9/26 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR eid celebrations
Old Ref: Box 5 no 43
14/9/27 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR, mess boys in their
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eid best
Old Ref: Box 5 no 44
14/9/28 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR, Baluch mercenaries
celebrate eid
Old Ref: Box 5 no 45
14/9/29 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR orders’ group (‘O’ Gp),
before a coy operation. Old Ref: Box 5 no 46
14/9/30 Outside Haluf, pregnant gazelle shot for the
pot
Old Ref: Box 5 no 47
14/9/31 Haluf, enemy weaponry captured by ‘B’ Coy
NFR. Old Ref: Box 5 no 48
14/9/32 Haluf, enemy weaponry captured by ‘B’ Coy
NFR. Old Ref: Box 5 no 49
14/9/33 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR, Capt Tony Artus
recording captured enemy weaponry Old Ref: Box 5
no 50
14/9/34 Haluf, Baluch soldiers of ‘B’ Coy NFR,
playing volleybal
Old Ref: Box 5 no 51
14/9/35 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR rocket launcher training
Old Ref: Box 5 no 52
14/9/36 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR rocket launcher training
Old Ref: Box 5 no 53
14/9/37 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR mortar section counter
fire
Old Ref: Box 5 no 54
14/9/38 Haluf, Strikemaster(s) in support of a mortar
and rocket bombardment on the camp
Old Ref: Box 5 no 55
14/9/39 Haluf, Strikemaster(s) in support of a mortar
and rocket bombardment on the camp
Old Ref: Box 5 no 56
14/9/40 Haluf, Strikemaster hit on enemy mortar and
rocket fire position on the horizon
Old Ref: Box 5 no 57
14/9/41 Haluf, Strikemaster hit on enemy mortar and
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rocket fire position on the horizon
Old Ref: Box 5 no 58
14/9/42 Haluf, NFR rehearsal for the presentation of
medals by HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id
Old Ref: Box 5 no 59
14/9/43 Haluf, NFR rehearsal for the presentation of
medals by HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id
Old Ref: Box 5 no 60
14/9/44 Haluf, NFR rehearsal for the presentation of
medals by HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id
Old Ref: Box 5 no 61
14/9/45 Haluf, NFR rehearsal for the presentation of
medals by HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id
Old Ref: Box 5 no 62
14/9/46 Haluf, CSAF, Brig John Graham, waiting to
meet HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id from a
Skyvan
Old Ref: Box 5 no 63
14/9/47 Haluf, HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id takes the
salute
Old Ref: Box 5 no 64
14/9/48 Haluf, HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id inspects the
honour guard, accompanied by CO NFR, Lt
Col Carl Beale
Old Ref: Box 5 no 65
14/9/49 Haluf, HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id inspects the
honour guard, accompanied by CSAF, Brig
John Graham, and CO NFR, LT Col Carl
Beale
Old Ref: Box 5 no 66
14/9/50 Haluf, HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id, assisted by
CSAF, Brig John Graham, presents medals to
officers and soldiers of NFR
Old Ref: Box 5 no 67
14/9/51 Haluf, HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id, assisted by
CSAF, Brig John Graham, presents medals to
officers and soldiers of NFR
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Old Ref: Box 5 no 68
14/9/52 Haluf, HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id, assisted by
CSAF, Brig John Graham, presents medals to
officers and soldiers of NFR
Old Ref: Box 5 no 69
14/9/53 Haluf, Baluchi LCpl of ‘B’ Coy NFR awarded
a belated Bravery Medal for his action against
NDFLOAG, following the attack on Izki Camp
of 12 June, 1970
Old Ref: Box 5 no 70
14/9/54 Haluf, departure of HM Sultan Qabus bin
Sa’id
Old Ref: Box 5 no 71
14/9/55 Haluf, departure of HM Sultan Qabus bin
Sa’id
Old Ref: Box 5 no 72
14/9/56 Haluf, Sgt Wali Muhammad, the Baluchi ‘B’
Coy NFR Mor Pl Sgt, conducting mortar
training
Old Ref: Box 5 no 73
14/9/57 Haluf, stand-to at dusk in ‘B’ Coy NFR mortar
pits
Old Ref: Box 5 no 74
14/9/58 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR’s mortars lay down
retaliatory fire against a stand off PFLOAG
attack
Old Ref: Box 5 no 75
14/9/59 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR’s mortars lay down
retaliatory fire against a stand off PFLOAG
attack
Old Ref: Box 5 no 76
14/9/60 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR’s mortars lay down
retaliatory fire against a stand off PFLOAG
attack
Old Ref: Box 5 no 77
14/9/61 Haluf, Sultan of Oman’s Artillery (SOA), 25
pdr battery, lays down retaliatory fire against a
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stand off PFLOAG attack
Old Ref: Box 5 no 78
14/9/62 Haluf, Sultan of Oman’s Artillery (SOA), 25
pdr battery, lays down retaliatory fire against a
stand off PFLOAG attack
Old Ref: Box 5 no 79
14/9/63 Haluf, Sultan of Oman’s Artillery (SOA), 25
pdr battery, lays down retaliatory fire against a
stand off PFLOAG attack
Old Ref: Box 5 no 80
14/9/64 Haluf, Sultan of Oman’s Artillery (SOA), 25
pdr battery, lays down retaliatory fire against a
stand off PFLOAG attack
Old Ref: Box 5 no 81
14/9/65 RAF Salalah, Skyvan and BAC 167
Strikemaster on the parking apron
Old Ref: Box 5 no 82
14/9/66 Salalah, ‘Umm al-Gawarif Camp, Officer’s
Mess garden
Old Ref: Box 5 no 83
14/9/67 Salalah, market place, Government notice and
propaganda board
Old Ref: Box 5 no 84
14/9/68 Salalah, al-Husn Palace
Old Ref: Box 5 no 85
14/9/69 Salalah, the suq
Old Ref: Box 5 no 86
14/9/70 Salalah, the suq
Old Ref: Box 5 no 87
14/9/71 Salalah, the suq
Old Ref: Box 5 no 88
14/9/72 Salalah, the suq
Old Ref: Box 5 no 89
14/9/73 Salalah, the suq
Old Ref: Box 5 no 90
14/9/74 Salalah, the suq
Old Ref: Box 5 no 91
14/9/75 Salalah, the beach looking west
Old Ref: Box 5 no 92
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14/9/76 Salalah, the beach looking east
Old Ref: Box 5 no 93
14/9/77 Salalah, sewn surf boats lightering stores
ashore from an offshore dhow
Old Ref: Box 5 no 94
14/9/78 Salalah, sewn surf boats lightering stores
ashore from an offshore dhow
Old Ref: Box 5 no 95
14/9/79 Salalah, sewn surf boats lightering stores
ashore from an offshore dhow
Old Ref: Box 5 no 96
14/9/80 Outside Salalah, ruins of the ancient town of
al-Bilad
Old Ref: Box 5 no 97
14/9/81 Outside Salalah, ruins of the ancient town of
al-Bilad
Old Ref: Box 5 no 98
14/9/82 Outside Salalah, ruins of the ancient town of
al-Bilad
Old Ref: Box 5 no 99
14/9/83 Outside Salalah, ruins of the ancient town of
al-Bilad
Old Ref: Box 5 no 100
14/9/84 Jabal Qara, picketing an NFR convoy from
Haluf to Thumrait (Midway), down ‘Aqabat
al-Hatab
Old Ref: Box 6 no 1
14/9/85 Jabal Qara, picketing an NFR convoy from
Haluf to Thumrait (Midway), down ‘Aqabat
al-Hatab
Old Ref: Box 6 no 2
14/9/86 Jabal Qara, picketing an NFR convoy from
Haluf to Thumrait (Midway), down ‘Aqabat
al-Hatab
Old Ref: Box 6 no 3
14/9/87 Jabal Qara, picketing an NFR convoy from
Haluf to Thumrait (Midway), down ‘Aqabat
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al-Hatab
Old Ref: Box 6 no 4
14/9/88 Midway Camp
Old Ref: Box 6 no 5
14/9/89 Midway Camp, Mahri badu, the one saluting is
wearing a cast off RAF tunic
Old Ref: Box 6 no 6
14/9/90 Midway Camp, the new Sultanic flag replacing
the former red duster
Old Ref: Box 6 no 7
14/9/91 Midway Camp, political prisoner pen for
PFLOAG committee members
Old Ref: Box 6 no 8
14/9/92 Midway Camp, political prisoner pen for
PFLOAG committee members
Old Ref: Box 6 no 9
14/9/93 Dauqa well and borehole
Old Ref: Box 6 no 10
14/9/94 Dauqa well and borehole
Old Ref: Box 6 no 11
14/9/95 NFR convoy watering at Dauqa
Old Ref: Box 6 no 12
14/9/96 NFR convoy watering at Dauqa
Old Ref: Box 6 no 13
14/9/97 Dauqa, butchering a goat purchased for the
convoy from a Mahri badawi
Old Ref: Box 6 no 14
14/9/98 Dauqa, butchering a goat purchased for the
convoy from a Mahri badawi
Old Ref: Box 6 no 15
14/9/99 Dauqa, ‘B’ Coy NFR mess boys dress a
gazelle shot for the pot
Old Ref: Box 6 no 16
14/9/100 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 17
14/9/101 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 18
14/9/102 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 19
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14/9/103 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 20
14/9/104 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 21
14/9/105 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 22
14/9/107 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 23
14/9/108 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 24
14/9/109 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 25
14/9/110 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 26
14/9/111 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy
Old Ref: Box 6 no 27
14/9/112 ‘Ayun pools, Capt Tony Artus surfaces after
attempting to measure the depth of the pools
Old Ref: Box 6 no 28
14/9/113 ‘Ayun pools, Capt Tony Artus surfaces after
attempting to measure the depth of the pools
Old Ref: Box 6 no 29
14/9/114 ‘Ayun pools, Capt Tony Artus surfaces after
attempting to measure the depth of the pools
Old Ref: Box 6 no 30
14/9/115 ‘ Ayun pools, camel
Old Ref: Box 6 no 31
14/9/116 ‘ Ayun pools, camel
Old Ref: Box 6 no 32
14/9/117 ‘Ayun pools, camel and calf
Old Ref: Box 6 no 33
14/9/118 ‘Ayun pools, camel and calf
Old Ref: Box 6 no 34
14/10 Operations in Jabal Qara 58 slides
14/10/1 NFR’s “HORNET” series of operations on
Jabal Qara.
49 slides
14/10/1/1 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR General
Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG)
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Gunner on patrol
Old Ref: Box 6 no 35
14/10/1/2 Jabal Qara terrain
Old Ref: Box 6 no 36
14/10/1/3 Jabal Qara terrain
Old Ref: Box 6 no 37
14/10/1/4 Jabal Qara terrain
Old Ref: Box 6 no 38
14/10/1/5 Jabal Qara terrain
Old Ref: Box 6 no 39
14/10/1/6 Jabal Qara terrain
Old Ref: Box 6 no 40
14/10/1/7 Jabal Qara terrain
Old Ref: Box 6 no 41
14/10/1/8 Jabal Qara terrain
Old Ref: Box 6 no 42
14/10/1/9 Jabal Qara terrain
Old Ref: Box 6 no 43
14/10/1/10 Jabal Qara, my Baluchi orderly,
Mubarrak bin Sa’id, on patrol
Old Ref: Box 6 no 44
14/10/1/11 Jabal Qara, searching a dead
PFLOAG militiaman
Old Ref: Box 6 no 45
14/10/1/12 Jabal Qara, recovering equipment
from a dead PFLOAG militiaman
Old Ref: Box 6 no 46
14/10/1/13 Jabal Qara, 14 year old PFLOAG
militia prisoner
Old Ref: Box 6 no 47
14/10/1/14 Jabal Qara, NFR mortar and
GPMG fire base returning to Haluf
after a battalion operation
Old Ref: Box 6 no 48
14/10/1/15 Jabal Qara, NFR mortar and
GPMG fire base returning to Haluf
after a battalion operation
Old Ref: Box 6 no 49
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14/10/1/16 Jabal Qara, ‘Aqabat al-Kismeem,
NFR preparing mortar pits
Old Ref: Box 6 no 59
14/10/1/17 Jabal Qara, ‘Aqabat al-Kismeem,
NFR bringing mortars out of
action
Old Ref: Box 6 no 60
14/10/1/18 Jabal Qara, view from ‘B’ Coy
NFR ambush position
Old Ref: Box 6 no 61
14/10/1/19 Jabal Qara, view from ‘B’ Coy
NFR ambush position
Old Ref: Box 6 no 62
14/10/1/20 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR cordon
and search of a village
Old Ref: Box 6 no 63
14/10/1/21 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR cordon
and search of a village, soldier
with captured AK 47 varian
Old Ref: Box 6 no 64
14/10/1/22 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR cordon
and search of a village, soldier
with captured AK 47 varian
Old Ref: Box 6 no 65
14/10/1/23 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR moving out
of camp at last light
Old Ref: Box 6 no 66
14/10/1/24 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR moving out
of camp at last light
Old Ref: Box 6 no 67
14/10/1/25 Jabal Qara, SOA forward
observation officer (FOO)
Old Ref: Box 6 no 68
14/10/1/26 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR
observation post (OP)
Old Ref: Box 6 no 69
14/10/1/27 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR cordon
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and search of a village
Old Ref: Box 6 no 70
14/10/1/28 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR cordon
and search of a village
Old Ref: Box 6 no 71
14/10/1/29 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR cordon
and search of a village
Old Ref: Box 6 no 72
14/10/1/30 Jabal Qara, Qarawi tribesman held
for questioning after a ‘B’ Coy
NFR cordon and search of a
village
Old Ref: Box 6 no 73
14/10/1/31 Jabal Qara, Qarawi tribesman held
for questioning after a ‘B’ Coy
NFR cordon and search of a
village
Old Ref: Box 6 no 74
14/10/1/32 Jabal Qara, NFR recovery to Haluf
after a battalion op
Old Ref: Box 6 no 75
14/10/1/33 Jabal Qara, NFR recovery to Haluf
after a battalion op
Old Ref: Box 6 no 76
14/10/1/34 Jabal Qara, NFR recovery to Haluf
after a battalion op
Old Ref: Box 6 no 77
14/10/1/35 Jabal Qara, NFR recovery to Haluf
after a battalion op
Old Ref: Box 6 no 78
14/10/1/36 Jabal Qara, NFR recovery to Haluf
after a battalion op
Old Ref: Box 6 no 79
14/10/1/37 Jabal Qara, NFR stop positions
astride the Midway Road, during a
joint MR/NFR operation
temporarily to reopen the road.
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The burning grass is caused by
enemy tracer fire
Old Ref: Box 6 no 80
14/10/1/38 Jabal Qara, NFR stop positions
astride the Midway Road, during a
joint MR/NFR operation
temporarily to reopen the road.
The burning grass is caused by
enemy tracer fire
Old Ref: Box 6 no 81
14/10/1/39 Jabal Qara, NFR stop positions
astride the Midway Road, during a
joint MR/NFR operation
temporarily to reopen the road.
The burning grass is caused by
enemy tracer fire
Old Ref: Box 6 no 82
14/10/1/40 Jabal Qara, NFR stop positions
astride the Midway Road, during a
joint MR/NFR operation
temporarily to reopen the road.
The burning grass is caused by
enemy tracer fire
Old Ref: Box 6 no 83
14/10/1/41 Jabal Qara, NFR stop positions
astride the Midway Road, during a
joint MR/NFR operation
temporarily to reopen the road.
The burning grass is caused by
enemy tracer fire
Old Ref: Box 6 no 84
14/10/1/42 Haluf, Baluchi snake charmer of
‘B’ Coy NFR
Old Ref: Box 6 no 85
14/10/1/43 Haluf, Baluchi snake charmer of
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‘B’ Coy NFR
Old Ref: Box 6 no 86
14/10/1/44 ‘B’ Coy watering and wooding
convoy from Haluf to Ma’
Shadeed and Wadi Ghudun
Old Ref: Box 6 no 87
14/10/1/45 ‘B’ Coy watering and wooding
convoy from Haluf to Ma’
Shadeed and Wadi Ghudun
Old Ref: Box 6 no 88
14/10/1/46 Wadi Ghudun, providing water
and other assistance to
to a badawi family of the bait
Kathir
Old Ref: Box 6 no 89
14/10/1/47 Wadi Ghudun, providing water
and other assistance to
to a badawi family of the bait
Kathir
Old Ref: Box 6 no 90
14/10/1/48 Wadi Ghudun, providing water
and other assistance to
to a badawi family of the bait
Kathir
Old Ref: Box 6 no 91
14/10/1/49 Wadi Ghudun, providing water
and other assistance to
to a badawi family of the bait
Kathir
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14/10/2 Jabal Qara, OP “BEAUFORT”, ‘B’ Coy NFR
under command MR
9 slides
14/10/2/1 Jabal Qara, OP “BEAUFORT”,
‘B’ Coy NFR stop position under
command MR for a sweep of
Wadi Darbat
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14/10/2/2 Jabal Qara, OP “BEAUFORT”,
‘B’ Coy NFR stop position under
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command MR for a sweep of
Wadi Darbat
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14/10/2/3 Jabal Qara, OP “BEAUFORT”,
‘B’ Coy NFR stop position under
command MR for a sweep of
Wadi Darbat
Old Ref: Box 6 no 52
14/10/2/4 Withdrawal from OP
“BEAUFORT” Wadi Darbat to
Taqa, investigating a deserted hut
Old Ref: Box 6 no 53
14/10/2/5 Withdrawal from OP
“BEAUFORT” Wadi Darbat to
Taqa, below the Darbat cliffs
Old Ref: Box 6 no 54
14/10/2/6 Withdrawal from OP
“BEAUFORT” Wadi Darbat to
Taqa, below the Darbat cliffs
Old Ref: Box 6 no 55
14/10/2/7 Taqa. fort
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14/10/2/8 Taqa town
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14/10/2/9 Mortar pit defending Taqa
Old Ref: Box 6 no 58
14/11 HQ Dhufar Brigade Mission to Kuria Muria Islands 8 slides
14/11/1 Raisut anchorage
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14/11/2 Raisut anchorage
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14/11/3 Raisut anchorage
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14/11/4 Raisut anchorage
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14/11/5 Raisut anchorage
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14/11/6 Iranian coastal vessel “Tylos,” chartered for
famine relief to the Kuria Muria Islands, as
well as for talks with the headman
Old Ref: Box 6 no 98
14/11/7 Iranian coastal vessel “Tylos,” chartered for
famine relief to the Kuria Muria Islands, as
well as for talks with the headman
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14/11/8 Iranian coastal vessel “Tylos,” chartered for
famine relief to the Kuria Muria Islands, as
well as for talks with the headman
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15 Sandhurst Expedition to Hadhramaut 1962-1963
15/1 Report of Sandhurst Expedition to the Hadramaut
TS ‘Report of the Sandhurst Expedition to the Hadramaut’
giving an account of planning and preparation of the
expedition, the background of the history and terrain of the
Protectorate, a copy of original orders for the ‘Op Magpie’
recce of the junction point of the ‘Western and Eastern
Aden Protectorate with the Yemen’ and a detailed daily
account of the expedition including photographs. The
expedition went from Aden to Ugla, then Ugla to Riyan,
and then Riyan to Aden.
4 Feb 1963 23 sheets
15/2 Expedition Photographs
Copies of black and white and colour prints consisting of
37 photographs from the expedition, 4 photographs of the
East Aden Protectorate, 9 photographs of Oman and 6
photographs of Saudi Arabia.
Related material: 14/2 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS)
Expedition to the Hadhramaut.
1962-1963 56 prints