The Aden Emergency 1963 - 1967


Officer in Aden in 1870



This is a picture of a British Officer in full uniform outside of his house with his servants. It was taken in 1870 just as the strategic and political importance of Aden was being transformed with the opening of the Suez Canal just the year before.


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