ABSTRACT
As Commandant, Coghlan was succeeded by Col J.A.R. Raines of HM 95th Foot. Raines was instructed to co-operate fully with Merewether: ‘Major Merewether, having the title of Resident, is, to all intents and purposes, a Governor, and must be treated as such…that is to say, that his final decision must be law to you, pending a reference to superior authority.’1 Merewether and Raines were in Aden for four and half years, and there is no indication that relations between them were anything but amicable.
