Administration of Trucial Oman Scouts

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Financial responsibility for the Trucial Oman Scouts being split between the War Office and the Foreign Office (1)
• Treasury financing an annual visit to the Gulf by the Colonel Commandant of the Trucial Oman Scouts (2)
• Application for employment in the Trucial Oman Scouts by Lieutenant Colonel J A Colquhoun. He is informed there are no vacancies (3)
• Applications for re-employment in the Gulf by former members of the Trucial Oman Scouts: Lieutenant Colonel E F Johnson and Captain Clayton (4)
• Review of the type and source of commissions given to Arab officers now that the reorganisation of the Trucial Oman Scouts is underway. It includes mention of an urgent need for an experienced Arab officer and the recent commission of a former member of the Transjordan Frontier Force (6)
• Request for details of entry into the Trucial Oman Scouts or the Arab Legion by British citizen M S Jefferson (7)
• Annual inspection by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of vehicles and technical equipment of British units and an enquiry into responsibility towards the Trucial Oman Scouts, Aden Protectorate Levies and the Somaliland Scouts (8)
• Action taken on the Trucial Oman Scouts' establishment (9)
• Trucial Oman Scouts' inability to conduct operations west of Abu Dhabi because of a shortage of water (10)
• Minutes of a meeting held at the Treasury on 1 August 1958 to discuss the proposed reorganisation of the Trucial Oman Scouts (11)