Perim Island

Hancock was the last ICS officer to be Assistant Resident. The main reason for the change was the murder of Captain Warneford, one of the Aden Assistants, and the requirement for another to be Political Officer at Dthala. There were not enough ICS officers to man Perim as well, especially as one could no longer be taken or borrowed from those in Somaliland (as Mr Malcolm Jones had been in 1898).