Trucial Oman Levies: command, organisation, administration and policy

This file contains:

• Trucial Oman Levies (TOL) monthly reports (numbers 13-19) for December 1952 to June 1953
• Report by the General Headquarters (GHQ) part of the joint GHQ Middle East Land Forces (MELF) / HQ Middle East Air Forces (MEAF) Team which visited the TOL, Iraq and Bahrain between 6-18 August 1953, including a map of the Trucial Oman Coast illustrating wireless nets, TOL posts, tribal posts and camel routes
• Minutes of a meeting involving the MELF and the MEAF to discuss the handover of the TOL from the RAF to the army

This file also contains correspondence relating to:

• Question of supply and maintenance if it becomes necessary to deploy the TOL in Liwa, Markhiya and/or Aqeila
• Attack led by Sheikh Abdulla Bin Salem Al Ka'abi on a TOL post
• Discrepancy in the January monthly report regarding Arab Legion personnel
• Permission for the TOL to cross Muscat territory on its way to Kalba
• Reduction in strength of the TOL at Buraimi since the Buraimi Standstill Agreement came into force
• Plans to construct a TOL post in the Wadi Al Qaur [Wadi Al Qawr]
• Intention to send a contingent of Aden Protectorate Levies (APL) to relieve most of the TOL at Buraimi
• Directive to Wing Commander R A A Dawes regarding the command of military operations in the Trucial States
• Reconsideration of the whole question of the command, organisation and administration of local forces in the Trucial States, and HMG's decisions regarding the future command structure in the Gulf
• Financial administration of the TOL, and the question of responsibility for medical issues and rationing
• Political Residency in the Persian Gulf's request for more colour in the TOL monthly reports, in order to help the Political Resident write his report
• Plans for new TOL squadrons to relieve APL units; and consideration of how this process will be interpreted by Saudi Arabia
• Operational order for the TOL to takeover command of ground forces in the Trucial area from the APL
• Organisation and establishment of the TOL