Reports on Aden routes

This material is held atRoyal Commonwealth Society Library

Scope and Content

Manuscript and typescript reports by Wheeler and others on Aden routes, with a sketch map of the area. The papers include Wheeler's report on the best road from Aden to Dthala for a force accompanied by artillery on wheels, with a covering letter to D.A.A.G., Aden, 13 November 1902, 22 pages. The other items include a diary and itinerary of Route Sanah to Dthala by the Wadi Tiban, Wadi Tabaghain and Sueda, 1-10 May 1905, 14 pages, and similar reports.

Administrative / Biographical History

Samuel Gerald de Courcy Wheeler was a Lieutenant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased from H.G. Long, 1913.

Note

Includes index.

Other Finding Aids

MSS 21

Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 59.

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Additional Information

This collection level description was created by RAS.

Wheeler, Samuel Gerald de Courcy, fl 1902-1905, soldier