A small war: Aden till 1967

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Three items. The first is from an obituary of Brigadier David Baines who served there in September 1965, commanding an artillery regiment:

he assumed command of 1 RHA and led the Regiment to Aden on operational service in September 1965. The Regiment fired more than 23,000 rounds in support of seven British and six Arab battalions and received some 50 casualties, including seven killed.

Link, behind a pay wall:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituari...ines-obituary/

Added as it shows the scale of the combat mission "up country", often called The Radfan.

The second is an episode on Aden and Yemen,from a 1985 Granada TV documentary series 'End of Empire', which appears on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94dwNP18yI

The third is a reminder that one of the most recent books on this 'last colonial war' is Jonathan Walker's 'Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in Yemen 1962-67', published in 2014. There's also a link to a filmed lecture he gave @ Kings War Studies:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KfFs-FCcOg

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Discovered elsewhere: Middle East Land Forces - Report On Operations in Radfan: 14 April - 30 Jun 1964

It is 262 pages: 52.4MB available via: http://royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/Ram...n%20Radfan.pdf

There is a short report on the deployment of one SAS Squadron, amongst many other reports.