Trucial Oman Scouts

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Question of the transfer of jurisdiction over the Trucial Oman Scouts (TOS) to Abu Dhabi (42-43)
• Arrangements for Faisal Sultan and Mohammad Saleh to begin a course at Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot (44)
• Enquiry about Mulazim Thoma of the TOS and his entitlement to leave in Lebanon (45)
• Proposal for Colonel H J Bartholomew to be appointed as the new Commandant of the TOS, in succession to Colonel S L A Carter (46)
• Summary of meetings with Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, at which an outstanding TOS murder case was discussed (47)
• Possibility of the secondment of officers from Australia and New Zealand to the TOS, the Sultan's Armed Forces and the Aden Protectorate Levies (48)
• Report of an incident in which the Ruler of Ajman Sheikh Rashid Bin Humaid Al Nuaimi was held up and searched by a party of the TOS (49)
• Issuing of new machine guns to the TOS (50)
• Plans to move the Desert Regiment of the TOS to a new headquarters in Buraimi, the need to postpone this until after Herbert de Ribbing's visit to the area and the concern that an increase in troop numbers in Buraimi might provoke a negative reaction (51-52)
• Saleh Bin Saleh of the TOS, who is accused of murder. His medical condition has deteriorated and it has been advised that he should be removed for treatment, but there is concern that this would harm the ongoing discussions about jurisdiction over the TOS (53)