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<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong>, <strong>Insurgency</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> “War on Terror”
71. Mark Connelly, “The British Campaign in Aden 1914-1918,” Journal of <strong>the</strong> Centre for
First World War Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2005, provides an excellent account of
British strategy <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> operational problems encountered.
72. The individual aircraft comprised six Sopwith Schneiders <strong>and</strong> a Short Type 184.
73. Dick Cronin, Royal Navy Shipboard <strong>Air</strong>craft Developments, (<strong>Air</strong> Britain, 1990),
pp. 207-211. GOC Aden’s telegram, reporting <strong>the</strong> attacks, ended, “Moral effect
very great, damaging Turkish prestige with <strong>the</strong> Arabs.” NA/AIR1/648/17/122/393.
74. NA/AIR1/657/17/122/567.
75. The Ben-My-Chree carried three Shorts 184s, two Sopwith Schneiders <strong>and</strong> a
single Sopwith Baby.
76. Firsth<strong>and</strong> accounts of this action can be found in William Wedgwood Benn’s, In <strong>the</strong>
Side Shows (Hodder <strong>and</strong> Stoughton, London, 1919), pp. 88-94, <strong>and</strong> Charles R
Samson’s, Fights <strong>and</strong> Flights (London: Ernest Benn, 1930), pp. 304-309. The full
history of RNAS operations in <strong>the</strong> Middle East can be found in C E Hughes,
Above And Beyond Palestine (London: Ernest Benn, 1930), pp. 92-103.
77. NA/PRO/AIR 1/404/15/270/45: Resume of RAF Operations 1918.
78. Connelly, page 85.
79. The exact number is difficult to ascertain. The 1922 Encyclopaedia Britannica stated
that Aden’s population was 46,000 <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hadhramaut’s was 150,000. The more
densely settled Western Protectorate may have supported twice <strong>the</strong> numbers in
<strong>the</strong> Eastern Protectorate, giving a total population of nearly 500,000.
80. A Hamilton, The Kingdom of Melchior (London: John Murray, 1949), p. 28.
81. NA AIR5/1299
82. A detailed account of <strong>the</strong> campaign can be found in Ian Burn’s article, “Z Unit,
RAF,” Cross & Cockade, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2007.
83. A particularly critical account by Major C A L Howard was printed in <strong>the</strong> Journal
of <strong>the</strong> United Service Institution of India in January 1923. It attracted an energetic
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