| A. L. Holt | |
| Honorific Suffix: | MBE, MC |
| Allegiance: | British |
| Rank: | Major |
| Unit: | Royal Engineers |
| Laterwork: | Explorer |
Major A. L. Holt, MBE, MC (1896–1971) was a British military officer and explorer.[1]
In the 1920s while a member of the Royal Engineers, Holt led a number of motorized expeditions through the deserts of Arabia, the first time such long journeys had been undertaken with such a large number of vehicles.
In 1921 Holt was involved in creating a track across the Syrian Desert from Baghdad to the eastern edge of the Harrat al-Sham in Jordan, which was to act as a guide track for the pilots of the Cairo – Baghdad air route.[2] In 1923 Holt took Rose Wilder Lane, journalist B.D. MacDonald and Holt's wife by car across the same desert.[3]
Holt traveled on occasion with St. John Philby and Gerard Leachman.
In 1923 he proposed a route for a trans-Arabian railway which he had personally surveyed in 1922 by automobile. He writes,
The railway was never built.