Pauline Minter

1922 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Pauline Minter
  Birth	29 Sep 1922	Liverpool, Lancs   [1]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	0485BBF267444547870B23E00A310CCA13D4
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	As Pauline Searle, authored 'Dawn over Oman' and 'Stella Maris'. Her papers c1968-79: relating to time in Oman are in the National Archive. The following is copied from www.sant.ox.ac.uk: Biographical history: SEARLE, Pauline, b Liverpool 29 September 1922, nee Minter, journalist. Educated at Berkhampstead School for Girls and joined the Red Cross at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. She served on an ambulance train based in London and Southampton until the end of the war when she went out to India as a Voluntary Aid Detachment for eight months and worked as a part-time journalist on newspapers and for Radio Malaya. In 1955 she joined the Malayan Film Unit in Kuala Lumpar spending two years writing anti-Communist scripts and propaganda films for the Government. She went on to work in Japan, writing articles for a Malayan magazine, in Indonesia, where she wrote articles on Java, Bali, mountain climbing and sailing for Malayan magazines, in Nigeria, where she wrote for Radio Port Harcourt, and in Libya. She worked as a correspondent for Reuters in Oman from 1968 – 1977, also producing articles for local newspapers in Oman, working at the Mission hospital in Matrah, and helping to set up the first English speaking Radio station in Oman, Radio Oman, to help counteract the enemy station Radio Aden. On leaving Oman, she retired to Cyprus, but soon took up an appointment for a year in the Solomon Islands on an Asian Bank Project, building ferro-cement fishing boats and operating them to catch skipjack tuna. From the Solomon Islands, she joined the British Executive Service Overseas, working on assignments for them in Fiji, Montserrat in the West Indies, and twice in Swaziland. Searle is the author of Dawn Over Oman (1979). In early 1947 she married Geoffrey Searle an oilman who worked for Petroleum Development Oman and has two sons. Scope and content: The papers cover the nine year period which Searle spent in Oman as a journalist for Reuters, relating mainly to the Dhofar war in southern Oman, which was ongoing during the time Searle lived there, and military operations connected with the war. A significant part of the papers relate directly to Searle's work for Reuters, and her communications with Reuters personnel in Bahrain and London. Other papers are working notes, and written articles created and collected by Searle in the course of her work. There is a small amount of personal papers and printed material. Some of the materials look at the wider context of life in Oman for the local people. Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 14, 1973; pg. 24; Issue 58834 recorded the Silver Wedding on 2 July 1973. Present address PO Box 81, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
  Person ID	I84	Canterbury, Kent
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2025

  
  

  Father	Harold Filmer Minter,   b. 30 Jun 1899, New Cross, London d. 4 Jan 1978, Parkstone, Dorset (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Winifred Emily LAWRENCE,   b. 9 Oct 1899, Camberwell RD d. 5 Apr 1977, Parkstone, Dorset (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	15 Oct 1921	Congregational Church, Hither Green, London   [1]
  Family ID	F49	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Geoffrey SEARLE
  Children	1. Robert Geoffrey SEARLE   2. Michael Paul SEARLE
  Family ID	F235	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2025

  
  

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  Birth - 29 Sep 1922 - Liverpool, Lancs  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] BMD index.