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[The lines along which the new Arab state of Iraq should be
organized were decided in London, before Churchill with Lawrence
and Major Hubert Young went out in March to the Cairo Conference
which was attended by all those responsible for British Government
and military organization in the Middle East. It included Sir
Herbert Samuel, Sir Percy Cox, Miss Gertrude Bell, Jaafar Pasha,
Sir Hugh Trenchard and General Geoffrey Salmond.
Feisal was put forward as a candidate for the throne who was
persona grata with the British Government, and, largely owing to
the influence of Gertrude Bell, was elected the following June by
an overwhelming majority of the lraqis. Trenchard, backed by
Lawrence, put forward the plan for Air Control in Iraq at an
estimated cost many millions below the lowest conceivable for an
army of occupation. This, incidentally, was of a double benefit to
the British taxpayer, since Iraq provided an ideal training ground
for the R.A.F. and was its great
opportunity. The settlement of lraq naturally disappointed many
ambitions and some British officers who left the service were
unable to see any good in the regime and have consistently attacked
Lawrence's reputation not only as a political adviser but as a
soldier and a writer and a man, and indeed on every possible
occasion.]
Kilde: Lawrence, T. E. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, edited
by David Garnett. - London : Spring Books, 1964 s. 328-329.
Original retskrivning.
RAF Inter-War (1919-1939) Battle Honours
A list of honours were promulgated in February 1947 covering local
wars, mainly in the Middle East and India, awarded to squadrons
which, after scrutiny of their records, it was considered took a
notable part. Such honours were not eligible for emblazonment on
Standards.
Aden 1928, Aden 1929, Aden 1934,
Afghanistan 1919-1920, Burma 1930-1932, Iraq 1919-1920,
Iraq 1923-1925, Iraq 1928-1929, Kurdistan 1919,
Kurdistan 1922-1924, Kurdistan 1930-1931, Mahsud 1919-1920,
Mohmand 1927, Mohmand 1933, Northern Kurdistan 1932,
Northern Russia 1918-1919, North West Frontier 1930-1931, North
West Frontier 1935-1939,
North West Persia 1920, Palestine 1936-1939, Somaliland 1920,
South Persia 1918-1919, South Russia 1919-1920, Sudan 1920,
Transjordan 1924, Waziristan 1919-1925.
Kilde: RAF Battle Honours.
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