WORLD WAR I - ADEN; DYCE, A. G.

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Photograph album of service with the Aden Field Force, 1916-1919. A fine personal album of unique images of the AFF in the field, taken and compiled by Captain A. G. Dyce (1886-1959), deputy assistant director Supply and Transport Corps. It includes photographs of infantry, cavalry, and artillery units, the use of balloons, and the signal contribution of ship-launched aircraft, under the command of Charles Rumney Samson.On the outbreak of war Ottoman forces advanced into the Western Aden Protectorate from Yemen, forcing the British to withdraw from Lahej and part of the Aden settlement. While Turkish encouragement of jihad fell on deaf ears in central Arabia, "it found resonance in Yemen. Ali Said Pasha [the skilful Turkish commander] was so successful in radicalising the tribes for the Ottoman cause that he was able to push British forces into the enclave of Aden. The tactic that defeated Ali Said Pasha was the use of Imam Yahya who argued that Yemen was not for the British or Ottomans but the Arabs. Arab nationalism eroded [Said Pasha's] … influence and saw England supporting a treaty with Imam Yahya as monarch of Yemen, which concluded in 1920" (Infantry, p. 43).Born in India and educated at Wellington College, Alan George Dyce (1886-1959), son of Brigadier-General G.H.C. Dyce, Indian Staff Corps, joined the Indian Army in 1906, serving initially with 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry. He was a keen photographer (appearing in an issue of Amateur Photographer for 1917) and mountain

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