A woman and her two daughters standing on a street in Tripoli, Libya, circa 1930. (Photo by Edward Charles Le Grice/Le Grice)

Libyan cavalrymen charging across the sand on horseback during a military display. 20th December 1939. (Photo by Keystone)

Black shirts are not worn, but these girls are members of the Italian Fascist organisation, taking part in a parade in Tripoli on review day, 1935. (Photo by Baron)

Soldiers being entertained by an officer playing the bagpipes at their camp in Libya, North Africa, during the Second World War, circa 1940. (Photo by Keystone)

The Emir Idris el Senussi, King of Libya leaving Victoria station by car, 1949. (Photo by Keystone)

A soldier of the French Foreign Legion holding his regiment's banner at Bar Hacheim in Libya, circa 1940. (Photo by Three Lions)

Two Libyan boys travelling on an a*s turn to stare at a passing German tank in the desert near Tripoli. 1st December 1942. (Photo by Keystone)

Local people accept gifts from troops during the British occupation of Darnah, Libya during the North African campaign of World War II, 28th February 1941. (Photo by Keystone)

Workers clearing the road at Sabratha in Libya, 1950. (Photo by Edward Charles Le Grice/Le Grice)

The 4/7th Dragoon Guards make friends with some locals in Libya, 1952. (Photo by Horace Abrahams/Keystone Features)

London Police Officer, Len Allen, head of the Police Training College, in Tripoli, leading practice for Arab trainee Policemen, circa 1950. (Photo by Keystone)

Trainees at the Police Training College in Busetta, Tripoli, practice their riot drill, 1952. (Photo by Horace Abrahams/Keystone Features)

The secretary and master of ceremonies of the King of Libya stroll in the gardens of the King's offices at Benghazi, 1952. (Photo by Horace Abrahams/Keystone Features)

Group Captain Hubbard at the El-Adem RAF Station in Libya, meeting Princess Mary the Princess Royal (1897–1965), who is to open a new swimming pool, 15th March 1962. With them is nurse June Kay (left). (Photo by Central Press)

Middle-Eastern leaders in Cairo for talks on the situation in Jordan, September 1970. Left to right: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1904–1975), President Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya (1942–2011), President Abdul Rahman Iryani (1910–1998) of the Yemen Arab Republic and President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) of Egypt. (Photo by Keystone)

Peter Hain, leader of Young Liberals, heads a demo in a street outside El Al office holding poster (Golda) “Meir Wanted For Murder” after Israeli forces shot down a Libyan airliner. 22nd February 1973. (Photo by Michael Webb/Keystone)

Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi (1942–2011), February 1985. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Daily Express)