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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 ...
On 1 June 1967 these were amalgamated to form the South Arabian Army (SAA). Since 1931 a gendarmerie style force called the Aden Armed Police had been responsible for maintaining order in Aden itself. By 1967, relations between the residual British administration and the Arab population of Aden had become increasingly tense following the Six ...
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
Many of the problems that Aden had suffered in its time as a colony did not improve as a federated state. In the new federation the Aden Trade Union Congress (ATUC) had a large influence in the new assembly and to prevent it seizing control of the federation in 1962 the former Colony of Aden had joined the Federation of South Arabia so that Aden's pro-British assembly members could counter the ...
The Aden police lost control, so British High Commissioner Sir Richard Turnbull deployed British troops to crush the riots. This was followed by pro-FLOSY rioters taking to the streets which then led to conflict with British troops until February. The mood created by the riots helped lead to the Arab Police mutiny. There had previously been ...
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]