British Order of Battle at the Aden Emergency

The following units of the British Armed Forces participated in the Aden Emergency (1963-67).

Saladin Armoured Cars of the Queens Dragoon Guards in Aden 1967

British street patrol in Aden 1967

Royal Air Force

• No. 8 Squadron RAF with the Hawker Hunter FGA.9^[1]
• No. 21 Squadron RAF with the Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.1, Douglas Dakota & Hawker Siddeley Andover CC.2^[2]
• No. 26 Squadron RAF with the Bristol Belvedere HC.1^[3]
• No. 37 Squadron RAF with the Avro Shackleton MR.2^[4]
• No. 43 Squadron RAF with the Hunter FGA.9^[5]
• No. 78 Squadron RAF with the Twin Pioneer CC.1 & Wessex HC.2^[6]
• No. 84 Squadron RAF with the Blackburn Beverley C.1^[7]
• No. 105 Squadron RAF with the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1^[8]
• No. 208 Squadron RAF with the Hunter FGA.9^[9]
• No. 233 Squadron RAF with the Vickers Valetta C.1^[10]
• No. 1417 (Fighter Reconnaissance) Flight RAF with the Hunter T.7 & FR.10^[11]
• RAF Police Joint Service Command
• No. 123 Signals Unit RAF

RAF Regiment

• No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12]
• No. 27 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12] 1965/66?
• No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12] 1965?
• No. 37 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12]
• No. 48 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12]

Royal Navy

• HMS Ashanti
• HMS Phoebe
• HMS Intrepid^[13]
• HMS Eagle - 800 NAS^[14][15]
• HMS Bulwark
• HMS Albion^[16]
• HMS Minerva
• HMS Centaur^[17][18]
• HMS Cambrian
• HMS Fearless^[15]
• HMS Auriga^[15]
• HMS Hampshire^[15]

Royal Marines

• 40 Commando
• 42 Commando^[19]
• 45 Commando

British Army

Culvert construction on the Dhala Road by Territorial Army Parachute Engineers

• 22 SAS Regiment
• Royal Armoured Corps
  • 10th Royal Hussars
  • 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
  • 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
  • Queen's Own Hussars
  • Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  • 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
  • Royal Tank Regiment
    • 1st Royal Tank Regiment
    • B Sqn 5th Royal Tank Regiment
• Guards Division
  • 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
  • 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards
  • 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards
  • 1st Battalion, Irish Guards
• Infantry
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Scots
  • 4th Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
  • 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Border Regiment (Various companies in support)
  • 1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers B Company
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment^[20]
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers^[21]
  • Royal Anglian Regiment
    • 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment^[22]
    • 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment^[21][22]
    • 4th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment^[22] (1965)
      • C Company (1967)
  • 1st Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
  • 1st Battalion, Lancashire Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
  • 1st Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry^[23]
  • 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders^[21]
  • 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers
• Parachute Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment^[19]
  • 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
  • 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
• Royal Artillery
  • 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
  • 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
  • 7th (Parachute) Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
  • 19th Light Regiment Royal Artillery
  • 47th Light Regiment Royal Artillery
  • 95th Commando Regiment Royal Artillery
• Royal Engineers
  • 10 Field Squadron (Airfields), Royal Engineers (Nov 1964 - 13 Dec 1967, last unit to leave)
  • 13 Field Survey Squadron Royal Engineers (15 Jan 1964 - 29 Jun 1967)
  • 24 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (15 Oct 1964 - 12 Jul 1965)
  • 30 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (Sep 1966 - Apr 1967)
  • 34 Independent Field Squadron Royal Engineers
    • 2 Troop
  • 39 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (Apr 1967 - Oct 1967)
  • 50 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (Aug 1964 - ?)
    • A Troop (Sep 1967 - Nov 1967)
  • 60 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (Nov 1964 - Nov 1965, Mar 1967 - Oct 1967)
  • 73 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (1965 - 1966)
  • 131 Parachute Engineer Regiment (Territorial Army)
  • 24th Brigade Postal and Courier Communications Unit Royal Engineers (1964 - 1967)
• Royal Corps of Signals
  • 15 Signal Regiment Royal Corps of Signals (1965 - 1967)
  • 222 (AF) Squadron Air Formation Signals (1959 - 1967)
• Royal Military Police
• Royal Corps of Transport
• Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Royal Army Medical Corps
  • 10 Brigade. Group. Medical Company R.A.M.C.
  • 24 Field Ambulance
• Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• Royal Army Pay Corps
• Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)
• Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)
• Royal Pioneer Corps (518 Company)
• Army Catering Corps

References

Citations

1. Jefford 1988, p. 26.
2. Jefford 1988, p. 31.
3. Jefford 1988, p. 33.
4. Jefford 1988, p. 37.
5. Jefford 1988, p. 39.
6. Jefford 1988, p. 48.
7. Jefford 1988, p. 50.
8. Jefford 1988, p. 54.
9. Jefford 1988, p. 69.
10. Jefford 1988, p. 75.
11. Lake 1999, p. 88.
12. Oliver 1997, p. 228.
13. Roberts 2009, p. 79–81.
14. "The British Withdrawal From Aden, November 1967". IWM. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
15. "British Forces In Aden and South Arabia, 1945 - 1967". IWM. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
16. Critchley 1980, p. 40.
17. McCart 1997, p. 87.
18. McCart 1997, p. 95.
19. "Why did British troops leave Aden? - Task Force". IWM. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
20. "The British Army In Aden And The South Arabian Federation". IWM. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
21. "Aden Emergency". National Army Museum. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
22. "The Royal Anglian Regiment rounding up suspects, Aden, 1967 (c)". National Army Museum. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
23. "The British Army In Aden And The South Arabian Federation". IWM. Retrieved 29 September 2024.

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• Jefford, C.G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310-053-6.
• Lake, Alan (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6.
• McCart, Neil (1997). HMS Centaur, 1943-1972. Fan Publications.
• Oliver, Kingsley (1997). Through Adversity - The History of the Royal Air Force Regiment 1942-1992. UK: Forces & Corporate Publishing. ISBN 0-9529597-0-4.
• Roberts, John (2009). Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy. Annapolis, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-812-8.