Withdrawal from Aden

Withdrawal from Aden
Part of Aden Emergency
Sir Humphrey Trevelyan waving to departing British helicopters on 30 November 1967.
Date 30 November 1967 Location Aden Result NLF victory End of the Aden Emergency Independence of South Yemen
Belligerents
United Kingdom	National Liberation Front (NLF)
Commanders and leaders
Humphrey Trevelyan	Qahtan al-Shaabi
Strength
3,500	Unknown

NLF celebrations on 30 November

The withdrawal from Aden was the final withdrawal of British troops from the colony of Aden, 128 years and 10 months after the Aden Expedition first brought the territory under British control. High Commissioner Sir Humphrey Trevelyan boarded an RAF aircraft at RAF Khormaksar after a short handover ceremony on 30 November 1967. The last troops to leave were the Royal Engineers.^[1][2]

The withdrawal meant the end of the Aden Emergency, and the dissolution of both the Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia. The NLF would declare the independence of South Yemen 11 hours after the last British troops had left, although their conflict with the Nasser-supported FLOSY continued into the following year. The latter would be defeated with covert British support.^[3]

Bibliography

• Mawby, Spencer (2005). British policy in Aden and the protectorates 1955-67: last outpost of a Middle East empire (2005 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7146-5459-1.

References

1. "Aden Emergency" at National Army Museum accessed 4 November 2013
2. Major Wilson, "Parallels with the retreat from Aden", Daily Telegraph, 22 Feb 2007 accessed 4 November 2013
3. Mawby 2005, p. 173

External links

• Aden Emergency at the Argylls Website^{[dead link]}
• British Pathe clip of Troop Withdraw from Aden
• Withdrawal from Aden at Imperial War Museum^{[dead link]}