FALLS, Captain Cyril; MACMUNN, Lieutenant-General Sir George...

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FALLS, Captain Cyril; MACMUNN, Lieutenant-General Sir George, and BECKE, Major A. F. (editors): 'Military Operations Egypt and Palestine Volume One: From the Outbreak of the War with Germany to June 1917. Volume Two (comprising two volumes): From June 1917 to the End of the War', London, HMSO, 1928-1930, set of 3 text vols and 2 cloth drop front map boxes, text vols original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (with some part losses), vol II pt I with folding map of Palestine in rear pocket as called for, and numerous other folding plates, maps, plates to text vols, map volume I with 15 folding maps as called for, map vol II with 23 folding maps as called for, these original cloth gilt, map vol II a/f. An exhaustive examination of Britain's role in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, compiled from official documents by direction of the historical section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. From the estate of Gawain Westray Bell (1909-1995), British colonial administrator who became the Governor of Northern Nigeria, with his ownership signatures in pencil to FFEP of each text volume. Bell served in Sudan between 1931 and 1954, with secondments to Palestine in 1938 and the Arab Legion during the Second World War. In 1956, he was appointed political agent in Kuwait, surviving an assassination attempt, before serving as governor of Northern Nigeria between 1957 and 1962, where he oversaw the end of British rule. In 1965, following failed talks and an Adenese walkout from the Federal and Federal Supreme Council, Bell and Sir Ralph Hone (1896-1992) were approached by the federation's leadership travelled to Aden to act as constitutional advisors. During the course of their visit they recommended that Aden become the capital of a new United Republic of South Arabia, with enhanced representation in the legislative and executive branches. Following his work in south Arabia, he led other missions to Oman (1966 and 1974) and the Trucial States. Provenance by descent (5)