A specialist collector sent me two pages from Baily's Hunting Directory 1949/50.
The Royal Harrthiya Hunt's Patron was H.R.H. the Amir Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq. Foxhounds arrived from England in July 1946. The majority of meets were within 15 miles radius of Bagdad. The normal field is around 30, but has numbered as many as 107.
It means Eddie's teacher got it:
I have spoken to my teacher. She says that it is in fact Arabic but uses some caligraphic characters she says are outside my level of Arabic!!! That said she can't read it completely but can see "The Royal ----- Cross" The missing word looks like Harithy which is of course a name not a word.
Again, thank you all for your contributions.
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