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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


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.


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


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-


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-


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


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


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


10/2/11 Photostat copy of ‘Oman – problems on all sides’,

Events

15 Oct 1976 4 sheets

10/2/12 ‘Oman’

Financial Times, Survey


10/2/13 ‘Oman- a Special Report’

The Times


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




1963




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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border post


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


to market


to market


to market


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


14/2/3 Back street(s), Steamer Point, Aden


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14/2/4 Back street(s), Steamer Point, Aden


14/2/5 Western Aden Protectorate, Ataq, airstrip






14/2/8 Western Aden Protectorate, FRA fort and

camp



camp



camp



camp



camp


14/2/13 Western Aden Protectorate, Citrullus

Colocynthis or bitter cucumber


14/2/14 Western Aden Protectorate, desert between

Ataq and Haib Milh salt mine








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


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


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


14/2/21 Western Aden Protectorate, al-‘Uqla, some of

the over 100 Himyaritic inscriptions


14/2/22 Western Aden Protectorate,, outside Shabwa


14/2/23 Western Aden Protectorate, outside Shabwa


14/2/24 Western Aden Protectorate, failing to negotiate

access to Shabwa with members of the Karab

tribe


14/2/25 Western Aden Protectorate, resupply by

Auster outside Shabwa


14/2/26 Western Aden Protectorate, resupply by

Auster outside Shabwa


14/2/27 Western Aden Protectorate, camp in the

Ramlat Sabatain


14/2/28 Western Aden Protectorate, camp in the

Ramlat Sabatain


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14/2/29 Western Aden Protectorate, crossing low

dunes in the Ramlat Sabatain


14/2/30 Western Aden Protectorate, Ramlat Sabatain,

Karab encampment



Karab tribesmen sacrificing a sheep



sheep hung in a Karab tent for skinning


14/2/33 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan road






14/2/36 Western Aden Protectorate, Wadi Beihan








14/2/40 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan.


14/2/41 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan,

ammunition belt shop.


14/2/42 Western Aden Protectorate, Beihan, palm oil

seed milling


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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Old Ref: Box 2 no 3

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


Neguib, civilian refugees from the Republican

bombing of the Royalist towns of Harib and

Marib in North Yemen

Old Ref: Box 2 no 6


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


14/2/53 Border between the West and East Aden

Protectorates, abandoned tribal canon


14/2/54 East Aden Protectorate, police post at Bar al-

Saka


14/2/55 East Aden Protectorate, police post at Bar al-

Saka


14/2/56 East Aden Protectorate, the 200 foot deep,

prehistoric well at Bar al-Saka

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14/2/57 East Aden Protectorate, government rest house

at al-Qatn


14/2/58 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut,

approaching Shibaum


14/2/59 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, the

‘skyscraper city’ of Shibam





















between Shibam and Saiwun



Saiwun



village outside Saiwun



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Saiwun



Saiwun, palatial ‘Javan’ merchant’s house.



between Saiwun and Tarim



camel caravan


14/2/73 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, a

small mosque in Tarim



entrance to a merchant’s house with sentry

box.


14/2/75 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Hadhramaut, al-

Mihdhar Mosque Tarim



police post between Tarim and Marsibat al-

Silma


14/2/77 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Masila,

farmland near Qabr Hud (tomb of the Prophet

Hud)


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



commercial desert landing strip between

Saiwun and Tarim


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14/2/80 The bleak tableland (djol) between Wadi

Hadhramaut and the coast with the Arabian

Sea at Shihir


14/2/82 The bleak tableland (djol) between Wadi

Hadhramaut and the coast with the Arabian

Sea at Shihir


14/2/83 East Aden Protectorate, crossing Wadi’ Adim

at Ma’adi


14/2/84 East Aden Protectorate, crossing Wadi’ Adim

at Ma’adi


14/2/85 East Aden Protectorate, the Arabian Sea near

Riyan


14/2/86 East Aden Protectorate, the Arabian Sea near

Riyan


14/2/87 East Aden Protectorate, outskirts of Mukalla


14/2/88 East Aden Protectorate, the coastal town of

Mukalla


14/2/89 East Aden Protectorate, the coast at evening

west of Mukalla


14/2/90 East Aden Protectorate, recuperating Arab

horse at Maifa Hajar Agricultural Centre


14/2/91 East Aden Protectorate, the ancient walled city

of Naqb al-Hajar (or Mayfa’at)


14/2/92 East Aden Protectorate, the ancient walled city

of Naqb al-Hajar (or Mayfa’at)


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14/2/93 East Aden Protectorate, Wadi Maifa’a






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


Old Ref: Box 5 no 9



14/2/106 Izki army camp


14/2/107 Sharjah, Trucial Oman Scouts piper


14/2/108 Dubai Creek, passenger ferries or bum-boats


14/2/109 Dubai Creek, passenger ferries or bum-boats


14/2/110 Capt. Ian Johnson, DIO Rustaq, and the

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featureless Gulf coast, between Dubai and

Abu-Dhabi


14/2/111 Salt marsh (sebkha), east of Abu-Dhabi (Capt.

Charles Hepworth)


14/2/112 Abu-Dhabi, al-‘Ain, the Abu-Dhabi Defence

Force (ADDF) fort at Jahili


14/3 Sultanate of Muscat and Oman

Photographs by Charles Hepworth

1970-1971 119 items

14/3/1 Suma’il Fort from the air


14/3/2 Al-Hazm Fort


14/3/3 Rustaq Fort


14/3/4 ‘Awabi Fort, garrisoned by a platoon detached from the company base

at Rustaq


14/3/5 Hot spring at Rustaq


14/3/6 Hot spring at Rustaq


14/3/7 Camel Spider


14/3/8 Dhows off Matrah Bay


14/3/9 Sea front at Matrah


14/3/10 Wadi Suma’il, part of ‘B’ Coy Northern Frontier Regiment’s (NFR)

road move from Rustaq to Izki, April 1970


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


14/3/23-24 Quriyat, the beach


14/3/25 Quriyat, the beach, shoreline fisherman with his catch


14/3/26-28 Qurityat, the souq

Old Ref: Box 3 no 18-20

14/3/29 Quriyat, the fish souq


14/3/30-32 Direct route up Jabal al-‘Akhdar from Izki. Izki in the background


14/3/32-39 Eastern end of the Jabal al-‘Akhdar, above Izki


14/3/39 Sunset in Wadi Halfain, goatherd returning to the fold


14/3/40-41 NFR mortar concentration at Izki camp, augmented by instructors from

Scots Guards at Sharjah


14/3/42 Donkey Handlers at Izki Camp


14/3/43-44 Wadiu bani Habib, the nearest permanent swimming pools to Izki


14/3/45 Birqat al-Mauz, the falaj


14/3/46 Storm over Izki Camp


14/3/47 Storm over Izki


14/3/48 Arch decorated in advance of Sultan Qabus’ arrival in Muscat on 30

Jul 1970


14/3/49 Dhows off Matrah


14/3/50-51 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Donkey handler on the Persian steps above Muti and

Manakhir


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14/3/52-54 Jabal al-‘Akhdar from above the Persian steps to Shuraijah


14/3/55-61 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Shuraijah


14/3/62 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Shuraijah, RAF bomb casing from the Jabal al-

‘Akhdar War of 1959


14/3/63-64 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Shuraijah


14/3/65-70 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Shuraijah to Saiq Camp


14/3/71-72 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Saiq Camp, cookhouse, baking bread


14/3/73-74 Jabal al-‘Akhdar, Saiq Camp, donkey handlers undergoing weapon

training


14/3/75-76 Izki Camp, Scots Guards Pipes and Drums from Sharjah entertain all

ranks ‘B’ Company, NFR


14/3/77 Izki Camp, sand grouse trapped by soldiers

Old Ref: Box 4 no58

14/3/78 Wadi Halfain, flash flood


14/3/79 Izki from the Ssouth


14/3/80 Izki Camp, cookhouse, baking bread


14/3/81 Izki from the south


14/3/82-83 Izki, palm groves


14/3/84 Izki, Capt Tony Artus and soldiers of ‘B’ Company, NFR, carrying out

road maintenance after a flash flood


14/3/85 Jabal Rashid, between Izki and Jabrin, Capt Tony Artus


14/3/86-87 Jabal Rashid


14/3/88-92 Jabal Rashid, the brackish pools that sometimes support duck and

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bring in flights of sand grouse


14/3/93 Izki Camp, carpenter repairing storm damage takes an unofficial siesta

on the Officers’ Mess veranda


14/3/94 Izki, small scorpion


14/3/96 Helicopter landing on the pad at Izki Camp


14/3/97-102 Izki from the air


14/3/103-108 Jabrin


14/3/109-110 Duru salt caravan passing Jabrin


14/3/111 Outside Jabrin, camel carcass by the Duru salt route


14/3/112 Outside Jabrin, pre-Dhufar training camp of ‘B’ Coy, NFR


14/3/113 Outside Jabrin, pre-Dhufar training camp of ‘B’ Coy, NFR


14/3/114 Jabrin fort


14/3/115 Jabrin fort, ‘B’ Company, NFR, NCOs with a wali’s askar, on the roof

of Jabrin fort


14/3/116-119 Jabrin fort, view from the roof


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


14/4/1/2 Al-Mintirib


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14/4/1/4 Wadi al-Batha, on route to al-

Kamil


14/4/1/5 Al-Kamil


14/4/2 Ja’alan Apr 1970 5 items

14/4/2/1 Road to Sur


14/4/2/2 Sur creek


14/4/2/3 Sur creek


14/4/2/4 Sur al-Sahil, looking east across

the creek to al-Ayjah


14/4/2/5 Well outside Bilad Sur


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


14/5/1/2 Wadi Tayin


14/5/1/3 Wadi Tayin


14/5/1/4 ‘Ibra


14/5/1/5 ‘Ibra


14/5/1/6 ‘Ibra


14/5/1/7 ‘Ibra

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14/5/1/8 Al-Mintirib, local notables

waiting to change their money












14/5/1/14 Al-Mintirib, palm leave weavers,

using their time gainfully, at the

end of the money-changing

queue


14/5/1/15 Al-Kamil


14/5/1/16 Al-Kamil


14/5/1/17 Al-Kamil


14/5/1/18 Al-Kamil


14/5/1/19 Al-Kamil


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


14/5/2/2 Wadi al-Batha, a Hikmani

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exchanges his money


14/5/2/3 Bilad Sur, abandoned fort


14/5/2/4 Approach to Sur al-Sahil


14/5/2/5 Custom’s [sic] House at Sur al-

Sahil


14/5/2/6 Sur al-Sahil


14/5/2/7 Younger son of the Wali of Sur


14/5/2/8 Younger son of the Wali of Sur


14/5/2/9 Sur al-Sahil, donkey park


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


14/7/2-3 Ruwaihi shepherd boy


14/7/4 Breakfast halt


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14/7/5-6 Summit of Jabal al-Khadra, between wadis

Mukaysa and Mahram


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


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)


14/7/9 Night halt on a mountain pass


14/7/10 Waterhole


14/7/11-12 Remote, nomad graveyard


14/7/13-14 Picking mangoes for the patrol in a hayl or

garden


14/7/15 Cultivator in a small farm (and an

occasional NDFLOAG hide), in the upper

Wadi Mahram


14/7/16 Nizwa, silver suq


14/7/17-18 Nizwa, suq


14/7/10 Nizwa, round tower


14/7/20-23 Nizwa, interior of round tower


14/7/24 Nizwa, view from round tower


14/7/25 Izki, window to the wali’s majlis or

reception room


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14/7/26 Izki, wali’s house and family


14/7/27 Night halt (Next day’s objective is on the

skyline)


14/7/28 Midday halt


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


14/7/33 Deserted Ruwaihi fareeq (seasonal

hut/campsite)


14/7/34 Midday halt


14/7/35 The mountain in the distance is the next

day’s objective


14/7/36 Communication’s halt


14/7/37 Evening on a waterhole, the day’s objective

is still on the skyline


14/7/38 Ruwaihi grazing ground


14/7/39 Yet another objective on the skyline


14/7/40 Climbine out of Wadi Sama’il, into the

tribal territory of the al-Siyabiyeen, with

Jabal al-‘Akhdar in the background


14/7/41 Jabal al’Akhdar slabs from the northern

Sharquiya. Seemingly sterile terrain in the

northern Sharquiya often concealed


14/7/42 Grassy wadis

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14/7/43 Wild, fruiting date groves


14/7/44-45 And water


14/7/46 Impressed Siyabi ‘recogniser’


14/7/47 Muscat

Old Ref: BIzki fortox 3 no 76

14/7/48-49 Izki fort


14/7/50-51 ‘Draculus,’ an immature Egyptian vulture

and the pet of Dick Candlish, a PDO Tribal

Liaison Officer at Izki


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.


14/7/53 Khalfan, the Wali of Izki’s desert guide and

tracker, in the Wadi Halfain south east of

Izki


14/7/54 Khalfan in the Wadi Halfain


14/7/55 Khalfan leading his camel through a pass

between Wadis Halfrain and Mukaysa


14/7/56 Wadi Sama’il


14/7/57 Matrah suq


14/7/58 NDFLOAG prisoner leading to an

NDFLOAG arms’ cache in a tributary of

the Wadi Halfain, south east of Izki


14/7/59 Part of the arm’s cache exposed

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14/7/60 The campsite caravan halt at B’ir al-

Hamaid, between Manah and Adam


14/7/61 Samha, at B’ir al-Hamaid, she always

returned to camp at dawn for saddling


14/7/62 Khalfan and camels enjoy a noon siesta

near Adam


14/7/63 Below Jabal Salakh, registering targets

during the reconnaissance for NFR’s

Mortar concentration


14/7/64 At the Falaj outside Adam, Duru Bedouin

washing date-palm fibre, used as padding in

camel saddles


14/7/65 Caravan halt outside Adam, Duru salt

caravan overnighting


14/7/66 Adam, the suq


14/7/67-68 Duru women gathering wood outside Adam


14/7/69 Izki, from the south


14/7/70-71 Direct donkey track up Jabal al-Akhdar

from Izki


14/8 Bahrein Undated 10 slides

14/8/1-4 Bahrein


14/8/5-7 Dhows off Bahrein


14/8/8-9 Bahrein, Manama, Caulking a small dhow

on the beach of Reef Island

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14/8/10 Bahrein, Manama Dhow Harbour


14/9 Dhufar War, 1971 1971 118 slides

14/9/1 Salalah from the air


14/9/2 Jabal Qura from the air


14/9/3 Jabal Qura from the air


14/9/4 Wadi Haluf from the air


14/9/5 The Northern Frontier Regiment’s (NFR)

camp at Haluf from the air


14/9/6 The Northern Frontier Regiment’s (NFR)

camp at Haluf from the air


14/9/7 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR lines, Maj. Peter

Gordon Smith (left) and Capt. Ian Leslie

(centre)


14/9/8 Haluf, HQ NFR prisoner pen, suspected

PFLOAG militiamen


14/9/9 Haluf, interior of ‘B’ Company NFR Officer’s

Mess tent


14/9/10 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR Officer’s Mess tent,

Maj Peter Gordon Smith



Maj Peter Gordon Smith and ‘Ali bin Talib, a

mess boy



Capt Charles Hepworth

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14/9/13 ‘B’ Company NFR mess boy, ‘Ali Bin Talib


14/9/14 Mist in Wadi Haluf, with Jabal Qara under

cloud on the horizon











14/9/18 Haluf, HQ NFR tentage


14/9/19 Haluf, HQ NFR tentage


14/9/20 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR, holding down

tentage in a storm


14/9/21 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR mess boy


14/9/22 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR WO’s and Sgt’s

Mess tent


14/9/23 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR eid celebrations,

Baluchi machine gun dance with live rounds


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


14/9/26 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR eid celebrations


14/9/27 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR, mess boys in their

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eid best


14/9/28 Haluf, ‘B’ Company NFR, Baluch mercenaries

celebrate eid


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


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


14/9/35 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR rocket launcher training


14/9/36 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR rocket launcher training


14/9/37 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR mortar section counter

fire


14/9/38 Haluf, Strikemaster(s) in support of a mortar

and rocket bombardment on the camp


14/9/39 Haluf, Strikemaster(s) in support of a mortar

and rocket bombardment on the camp


14/9/40 Haluf, Strikemaster hit on enemy mortar and

rocket fire position on the horizon


14/9/41 Haluf, Strikemaster hit on enemy mortar and

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rocket fire position on the horizon


14/9/42 Haluf, NFR rehearsal for the presentation of

medals by HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id











14/9/46 Haluf, CSAF, Brig John Graham, waiting to

meet HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id from a

Skyvan


14/9/47 Haluf, HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id takes the

salute


14/9/48 Haluf, HM Sultan Qabus bin Sa’id inspects the

honour guard, accompanied by CO NFR, Lt

Col Carl Beale


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


14/9/50 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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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


14/9/54 Haluf, departure of HM Sultan Qabus bin

Sa’id


14/9/55 Haluf, departure of HM Sultan Qabus bin

Sa’id


14/9/56 Haluf, Sgt Wali Muhammad, the Baluchi ‘B’

Coy NFR Mor Pl Sgt, conducting mortar

training


14/9/57 Haluf, stand-to at dusk in ‘B’ Coy NFR mortar

pits


14/9/58 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR’s mortars lay down

retaliatory fire against a stand off PFLOAG

attack




attack




attack


14/9/61 Haluf, Sultan of Oman’s Artillery (SOA), 25

pdr battery, lays down retaliatory fire against a

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14/9/65 RAF Salalah, Skyvan and BAC 167

Strikemaster on the parking apron


14/9/66 Salalah, ‘Umm al-Gawarif Camp, Officer’s

Mess garden


14/9/67 Salalah, market place, Government notice and

propaganda board


14/9/68 Salalah, al-Husn Palace


14/9/69 Salalah, the suq












14/9/75 Salalah, the beach looking west


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14/9/76 Salalah, the beach looking east


14/9/77 Salalah, sewn surf boats lightering stores

ashore from an offshore dhow








14/9/80 Outside Salalah, ruins of the ancient town of

al-Bilad



al-Bilad



al-Bilad



al-Bilad


14/9/84 Jabal Qara, picketing an NFR convoy from

Haluf to Thumrait (Midway), down ‘Aqabat

al-Hatab

Old Ref: Box 6 no 1



al-Hatab

Old Ref: Box 6 no 2



al-Hatab

Old Ref: Box 6 no 3



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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


14/9/94 Dauqa well and borehole


14/9/95 NFR convoy watering at Dauqa


14/9/96 NFR convoy watering at Dauqa


14/9/97 Dauqa, butchering a goat purchased for the

convoy from a Mahri badawi


14/9/98 Dauqa, butchering a goat purchased for the

convoy from a Mahri badawi


14/9/99 Dauqa, ‘B’ Coy NFR mess boys dress a

gazelle shot for the pot


14/9/100 ‘Ayun pools, NFR watering convoy






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14/9/112 ‘Ayun pools, Capt Tony Artus surfaces after

attempting to measure the depth of the pools








14/9/115 ‘ Ayun pools, camel


14/9/116 ‘ Ayun pools, camel


14/9/117 ‘Ayun pools, camel and calf


14/9/118 ‘Ayun pools, camel and calf


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


14/10/1/2 Jabal Qara terrain
















14/10/1/10 Jabal Qara, my Baluchi orderly,

Mubarrak bin Sa’id, on patrol


14/10/1/11 Jabal Qara, searching a dead

PFLOAG militiaman


14/10/1/12 Jabal Qara, recovering equipment

from a dead PFLOAG militiaman


14/10/1/13 Jabal Qara, 14 year old PFLOAG

militia prisoner


14/10/1/14 Jabal Qara, NFR mortar and

GPMG fire base returning to Haluf

after a battalion operation


14/10/1/15 Jabal Qara, NFR mortar and

GPMG fire base returning to Haluf

after a battalion operation


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14/10/1/16 Jabal Qara, ‘Aqabat al-Kismeem,

NFR preparing mortar pits


14/10/1/17 Jabal Qara, ‘Aqabat al-Kismeem,

NFR bringing mortars out of

action


14/10/1/18 Jabal Qara, view from ‘B’ Coy

NFR ambush position


14/10/1/19 Jabal Qara, view from ‘B’ Coy

NFR ambush position


14/10/1/20 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR cordon

and search of a village



and search of a village, soldier

with captured AK 47 varian



and search of a village, soldier

with captured AK 47 varian


14/10/1/23 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR moving out

of camp at last light


14/10/1/24 Haluf, ‘B’ Coy NFR moving out

of camp at last light


14/10/1/25 Jabal Qara, SOA forward

observation officer (FOO)


14/10/1/26 Jabal Qara, ‘B’ Coy NFR

observation post (OP)



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14/10/1/30 Jabal Qara, Qarawi tribesman held

for questioning after a ‘B’ Coy

NFR cordon and search of a

village


14/10/1/31 Jabal Qara, Qarawi tribesman held

for questioning after a ‘B’ Coy

NFR cordon and search of a

village


14/10/1/32 Jabal Qara, NFR recovery to Haluf

after a battalion op














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







enemy tracer fire







enemy tracer fire







enemy tracer fire







enemy tracer fire


14/10/1/42 Haluf, Baluchi snake charmer of

‘B’ Coy NFR


14/10/1/43 Haluf, Baluchi snake charmer of

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‘B’ Coy NFR


14/10/1/44 ‘B’ Coy watering and wooding

convoy from Haluf to Ma’

Shadeed and Wadi Ghudun


14/10/1/45 ‘B’ Coy watering and wooding

convoy from Haluf to Ma’

Shadeed and Wadi Ghudun


14/10/1/46 Wadi Ghudun, providing water

and other assistance to

to a badawi family of the bait

Kathir





Kathir





Kathir





Kathir


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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Wadi Darbat





Wadi Darbat


14/10/2/4 Withdrawal from OP

“BEAUFORT” Wadi Darbat to

Taqa, investigating a deserted hut




Taqa, below the Darbat cliffs




Taqa, below the Darbat cliffs


14/10/2/7 Taqa. fort


14/10/2/8 Taqa town


14/10/2/9 Mortar pit defending Taqa


14/11 HQ Dhufar Brigade Mission to Kuria Muria Islands 8 slides

14/11/1 Raisut anchorage










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14/11/6 Iranian coastal vessel “Tylos,” chartered for

famine relief to the Kuria Muria Islands, as

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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

Documents

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