In 1920 the RAF established a temporary airfield for the ‘policing’ of nationalist resistance. The operation known as Z Force
is recognised as the first exclusive use of arial bombarbment instead of air power used in support of ground troops. Therefore changing forever the nature of warfare. The site was adentified using archive photographs held at the RAF Museum, Hendon.
The Berbera – Harrar was a railway proposed by the British Colonial Govt. linking Berbera with the hinterland. It was surveyed in 1903 but never built. Detailed survey maps are held in the National Archives, Kew and using these as a reference I made photographs along the originally proposed route.
Images originated on 4×5″ negative.