Page 140 - Demo

140Infantry by the RAF in 1928 for Air Control of the Protectorates. Under the RAF it had 1,200 men with 50 British and Arab Officers, in two battalions, each of four rifle companies. A section of RAF armoured cars, imported from Iraq and assigned as a %u2018flight%u2019 of No 8 (Bomber) Squadron, of enduring Aden fame, added some muscle. APL Arab Officers%u2019 held Governor%u2019s Commissions and their ranks were Turkish as shown below. %u0006%u000f%u0003%u0004%u0005 1%u001a\67!%u000f3%u0004%u001a%u0003%u0005%u0012%u001a8%u0005%u0007%u000c%u001affl'%u000b%u000c%u0001ffl%u0008%u0001)+ffl%u0008%u0001%u0001 2ffi%u0003+%u0001 &fflG%u0001%u0007%u000c%u001affl'%u000b%u000c%u0001 ;%u000bffi%u0009%u0009%u0001:%u000c%u0011'%u0001 2ffl%u0011%u0012%u0001>fl=%u001affl'%u000b%u000c%u0001 ;+%u0003%u0001:%u000c%u0011'%u0001 F%u0012%u0001&fl%u0008ffl==%u000c%u0001 %u0009%u0001:%u000c%u0011%u0001 %u0015$%u0001F%u0012%u0001Aden Protectorate Levies Arab Officer Ranks. Unlike the Iraq Levies, the APL had a low8profile war, shooting down one Italian bomber with their wartime AA Battery, but otherwise maintaining the normal, fractious %u2018peace%u2019 in the Protectorate and neighbouring British Dependencies. Things were about to change, however.No 6 Sqn APL on a non?tactical up?country move