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Apr 2

Maj Gen JJJ Phipps CB

Jeremy Julian Joseph Phipps was born 30 June 1942 the son of a Royal Navy Officer Alan Phipps who was killed ashore at the Battle of...

Apr 2

Captain Lilian Malcolm QARANC and FMS

Regrettably, due to the inadequacy of your webmaster, we failed to mark the passing of Lilian Malcolm in October 2020. I have included...

Jan 20

New Military Appointments

The President of the SAF Association, Lt General Ahmed bin Harith Al Nabhani WO WKhM L.d’H, has his last day in the office today 20th...

Jan 19

Shirley Akehurst Funeral

Shirley Akehurst's family have kindly shared with us the details of how to attend her funeral online. The details of their message and...

Jan 14

Shirley Akehurst

It is with considerable sadness that we report the death of Shirley, the widow of General Sir John Akehurst KCB CBE who commanded Dhofar...

Jan 12

Lou Lyddon

Lou Lyddon was one of a small number of Airwork Services employees who joined the SAF Association. Lou died on Wednesday 6th January 2021...

Jan 12

New Year Honours List 2021

We have noted the following awards in the 2021 New Year Honours List Major General Richard Stanford MBE, Senior British Loan Service...

Jan 7

Bequest from the late Neville Baker

The late Neville Baker’s crucial role in setting up SOAF’s helicopter force was recorded here in his obituary last year - click here. We...

Jan 6

A message from our Chairman

For the first time in our 52 years, we’ve now had to cancel the Association’s Annual Dinner – not a milestone that any of us would have...

Nov 8, 2020

Dick Carrington

Dick was born in St Albans in 1935 to a family of journalists. On leaving school he trained as a journalist on the Herts Advertiser. For...

Oct 27, 2020

Colonel Said bin Salem al Wahaibi

Colonel Said Salim sadly passed away in October 2020. He was born on 1 May 1936 in Wadi Assarin. At the age of 16 he went to Sohar and...

Sep 4, 2020

50 Years of Helis

Even in these uncertain times, celebrating the Helis 50th was too important an anniversary simply to be cancelled or postponed…. It was...

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