FO 371/148870
Units of UK armed forces in Arabia and Persian Gulf, 1960
This file contains correspondence relating to:
Suggestion to station a tank-carrying landing ship, tank (LST) in the Gulf, in case of the need to intervene in defence of Kuwait, and the question of where to conduct exercises for the tanks and crew (17)
Request for the LST Dieppe, sailing from Aden to carry out landings in Oman (18)
Request from the new Political Officer with British Forces in the Arabian Peninsula (BFAP) R A Clinton-Thomas for a number of documents and reference papers [list enclosed] and details of Clinton-Thomas's visit to Aden (19)
First visit to
