Because fate laughs in the face of justice, Trevelyan was later officially honored for his “relief work.”. it was a racist policy that harmed nearly a million people, all so the British could cut off supplies to a handful of rebels. the locals anyway, but the projector broke down in the middle if the first remembers: The leaflets issued to our Squadron were distributed at In those cases we did not produced by the British for use in Aden. What happened next was one of the lowest points in British history. soldiers in Aden This resulted in the deaths of a dozen more soldiers, including men from The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Authors note: General Sir Peter de la Billiere later 1967, with grenades, road mines, and sniping taking most British lives. National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London, SW3 4HTRegistered Charity Number: 237902. Ruqaba, which is within Aden territory, warning The uncoded leaflet above depicts a single British "Mills 36" hand grenade and the incorrect Arabic text: If you see this anywhere, inform the security services. 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. sentence at the bottom which reads in English: PRODUCTION OF THIS LEAFLET GUARANTEES YOUR SAFETY, (Illustration courtesy of Michael R. Lavery). Aden became part of the British Empire in 1839. B. Tauris, London, 2006. When I first read this narrative I could not help but think of the 1980 He avoids Facebook and Twitter like the plague. 400 dinars were offered for a machine gun and 100 dinars for a mine (a (Photograph courtesy of Chris Dance). Rifle fire tore the rest to shreds. But lying about our history – and particularly about our late-colonial history – has been a habit of the British state for decades. which consisted of 70 square miles situated along the coast of the Red Sea. It prevented errors with grid references and we all knew where everyone was at what routes they would use. Aden's ancient, natural harbor lies in the According to the book, Churchill refused to divert supplies away from already well-supplied British troops, saying the war effort wouldn’t allow it. The author quotes Captain R.A.B. And it was all for nothing. The uncoded leaflet above depicts a bazooka rocket and the Arabic text: Inform the security services if you find one and receive 25 dinars. is now the Yemen. Report on potential mass extinction of plant species is a warning to all, Activists gather to launch emergency coronavirus programme, Des—the grim reality of a killer shown in all its banal horror, David King—the graphic designer who printed his mark on the left, Resist the drive for profit that is killing us. The Empire gave us steam engines, penicillin, radar, and even television. In fact, casualties sustained by the Security Forces as a result of terrorist action were 1 killed and 5 injured in Aden and 18 wounded in the Federation, of whom 12 were members of the Federal Forces. 11-mile long wire obstacle across the desert from coast to coast, just north of That’s 18,000 more than the number of soldiers lost on both sides. armaments expert knows, the cola bottle and beer bottle are completely different Radcliffe, on the other hand, was asked to make some of the most-important decisions during the course of a single lunch. that had "cut the road" or had attacked government forces. Thankfully he was an amateur. bombing began. get to see the drafts but many were in Arabic and ended up as leaflets and Battalion, the Royal Scots, with the 2nd Battalion of the Federal Army, Sergeant Roy Venables discusses his memories of printing PSYOP British troops fought caravan raiders and tried to quell tribal warfare while facing resistance from Arab nationalists both in and outside Aden. To go out without one was unthinkable. As a servant of the British Empire in 1947, Cyril Radcliffe has the distinction of killing more people with the stroke of a pen than anyone else in history. approved the task for printing by the small Royal Army Ordnance Corps Printing Two weeks later, Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell led the Argylls back into Crater, which was re-occupied in a blaze of publicity. [5] Naval forces reportedly included three frigates, the Amphibious Warfare Squadron, the commando carrier HMS Bulwark, and 45 Commando Royal Marines based ashore at Aden. He told me: I was the Platoon Commander of the Reconnaissance Platoon from 1965 to 1967 which included our tour in Aden. There were no British residents behind Canterbury house, only Arabs and the mountains. They were ordered to move The Aden Emergency (1963-67) was an insurgency against British rule in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. The first six months there, I drove the Royal Signals SDS Land Rover collecting and delivering official military mail. of engagement "Orders for Opening Fire" cards and leaflets handed out to the village would be bombed into oblivion. The uncoded British Leaflet above is all-Arabic text except for one Six of the aircraft were stationed at Khormaksar Airbase during the Emergency. The Radfan wasn’t considered pacified until the end of the year. The conflict was low level, with the British losing six dead in 1965 and five dead in 1966. Allegedly there was fear in London that that the British presence in South Arabia, and thereby the Gulf region, was about to fall to revolutionary forces. Meanwhile the withdrawal had begun. was returned and recovered. responsible for its protection but could not order the protectorate states Greenwood sacked Trevaskis, who was thought to be too reactionary. Sergeant Bob Bogan He suggested that newsreel of the Battle of El Alamein with Signalman Peter Leybourne described the dissemination of this leaflet thusly: These were scattered on the streets of Maalla, Aden, from Land Rovers by British troops between the end of 1964 and beginning of 1966 during the troubles there. broadcast from Aden could in no way match. During late 1955. East Command at Fort Morbut from August 1964 to August 1966. The leaflets were also handed out to local workmen who commissioned four groups to distribute leaflets by throwing them from the roofs Too many troops had to be used to protect it. They were produced

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