[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Operation Telic: Photos

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The Amphibious Task Group (Click here for high resolution version)	HMS Ark Royal transits the Suez Canal (Click here for high resolution version)	HMS Chatham in the Gulf (Click here for high resolution version)
RFAs Fort Victoria and Orangeleaf conduct replenishment at sea (Click here for high resolution version)	HMS Marlborough is one of the escorts in the Amphibious Task Group (Click here for high resolution version)	The helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, in the Arabian Gulf (Click here for high resolution version)
Troops, newly arrived in theatre, load kit aboard lorries at the airport (Click here for high resolution version)	Soldiers of 16 Air Assault Brigade arrive in the Gulf (Click here for high resolution version)	Vehicles unloaded at the docks prepare to move out (Click here for high resolution version)
One of the British camps, this the home to a logistic unit (Click here for high resolution version)
Royal Marines of 42 Commando erect tents at a camp in Kuwait (Click here for high resolution version)	A soldier dries her hair after having to wash it in the desert for the first time (Click here for high resolution version)	Royal Logistic Corps soldiers dig defensive trenches to protect their camp (Click here for high resolution version)
RAF personnel serving in the Gulf are served dinner in a mess tent (Click here for high resolution version)	Air Marshal Burridge, the commander of the UK forces in the Gulf, makes a pastoral visit (Click here for high resolution version)	Husband and wife, both RAF movements officers, are reunited at an airbase in the Gulf after weeks working apart (Click here for high resolution version)
(Click here for high resolution version)	A sequence showing the arrival by ship of RAF Pumas (Click here for high resolution version)	(Click here for high resolution version)
The Pumas are reassembled on the dockside, ready to fly to their base (Click here for high resolution version)	A Challenger 2 is unloaded from a ship - the tanks are then modified for desert service and repainted (Click here for high resolution version)	A pair of newly arrived Challenger Armoured Recovery & Repair Vehicles - CRARRVs - on the dockside (Click here for high resolution version)

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