Army recruitment and organisation

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Saudi Arabia mobilising its troops against Egypt. It includes newspaper cuttings from The Times, Daily Telegraph and Yorkshire Post (1)
• Information received from Kemal Adham via St J Armitage about changes among senior Saudi military personnel (2)
• Accounts of the passing out parade of the first and second batch of volunteers who have joined the Saudi Arabian Army since the beginning of the Yemen emergency by T F Brenchley (3-4)
• Full text [enclosed, in Arabic] of a Royal Decree on the organisation of Non-Commissioned Officers and other ranks in the Saudi Arabian Army (5)
• Request that a letter by Bossom dated 19 September 1962 about the supply of Vigilant aircraft to Saudi Arabia be downgraded to Secret (6)