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08/26. Asphalt. Royal Air Force Khormaksar or more simply RAF Khormaksar is a former Royal Air Force station in Aden, Yemen. Its motto was "Into the Remote Places". [1] During the 1960s, it was the base for nine squadrons and became the RAF's busiest-ever station as well as the biggest staging post for the RAF between the United Kingdom and ...
Having served in Aden in the 1960s during the Aden Emergency, she became patron of the Aden Veterans' Association in 2002 She died on 25 June 2011, aged 85 and is buried in the churchyard of St Kentigern's parish church, Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumbria. Personal life. On 17 March 1956, she married Captain Anthony Field (born 1927).
Yemen. The Aden Protectorate ( Arabic: محمية عدن Maḥmiyyat ‘Adan) was a British protectorate in southern Arabia. The protectorate evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut after the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India in January 1839, and which continued until the 1960s.
e. Aden Colony ( Arabic: مُسْتْعَمَرَةْ عَدَنْ, Musta'marat 'Adan ), also the Colony of Aden, located in the south of contemporary Yemen, was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1963. It consisted of the port of Aden and its immediate surroundings (an area of 192 km 2 (74 sq mi)).
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The Queen's Own Hussars (QOH), was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, formed from the amalgamation of the 3rd The King's Own Hussars and the 7th Queen's Own Hussars at Candahar Barracks, Tidworth in 1958. The regiment served in Aden and Northern Ireland and as part of the British Army of the Rhine.
February 22, 2024 at 7:00 AM. Jeff Chiu. WASHINGTON — Some of the nation’s largest veterans groups are pushing the Biden administration to “expeditiously” ease federal restrictions on ...
British Forces Aden was originally formed as Aden Command in 1928. [1] On its establishment, Aden Command was a Royal Air Force (RAF) command which was responsible for the control all British armed forces in the Protectorate. It was renamed British Forces in Aden, or simply British Forces Aden, in 1936 and renamed again in 1956 as British ...
The Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution (Arabic: ثورة 14 أكتوبر, romanized: Thawra 14 ʾUktūbar, lit. '14th October Revolution') or as the Radfan Uprising, was an armed rebellion by the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) against the Federation of South Arabia, a British Protectorate of the United ...