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The Battle of Crater or Operation Stirling Castle was an encounter in 1967 during the Aden Emergency. After the mutiny of the Arab Armed Police and ambush of British troops by them, the Crater district in Aden was abandoned by British troops. The British then decided to enter Crater and retrieve the bodies of dead British soldiers. [1]
The Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution (Arabic: ثورة 14 أكتوبر, romanized: Thawrat 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 ...
The Arab Police mutiny was an incident during the Aden Emergency where Arab soldiers and police mutinied against British troops. [1] While the mutiny itself was localized and quickly suppressed, it undermined the South Arabian Federation which had been organized by Britain in 1959 as an intended successor to direct colonial rule.
Crater in the mid-1870s. Crater in 1962. In the closing days of British rule in 1967, Crater District became the focus of the Aden Emergency, sometimes called the last imperial war. After a mutiny of hundreds of soldiers in the South Arabian Federation Army on 20 June, all British forces withdrew from Crater. Crater was occupied by Arab ...
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
He became a public figure in 1967 as the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Forces under his command reoccupied the Crater district of Aden which had been taken over by local police mutineers in what became known as "the last battle of the British empire". The reoccupation and subsequent control of ...
Initially called the RAF Central Hospital, it was formed at Hampstead in 1917, it soon moved to Finchley. It was one of the three post-war RAF Hospitals along with Halton and Cranwell, but was the smallest and first to close. In June 1925, the hospital was moved to RAF Uxbridge, becoming the officer's Hospital. [23] [24] Halton, England
1963 – January: Aden becomes part of the Federation of South Arabia. [5] 1964 – 16 October: Aden Legislative Council election, 1964 held. 1966 – National Museum of Aden established. [20] 1967 January: Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen-National Liberation Front conflict. [2] June: Suez Canal closes, affecting port of Aden. [9]