Dear brother . lm from Yemen, Aden, and my grandfather worked loyally for Britain in the port of Aden, and he lived among you, and he speaks highly of your kindness and good morals. By God, we are sad about your departure from Aden. They lied to us. Aden in your days was beautiful, with good law and order, and we hope that you will return to Aden again, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you to every British person. We love you very much, my dear brother
OMG yes what memories! We were in Aden 1961/63 may Dad was RAF Flt Lt TH Rowe (Tom) in charge of Air movements from Khormaksar, my mum Isabella and brother Dudley. We went to Chapel Hill school Steamer Point. I was seven to ten years old. We lived in Steamer Point briefly and then Maalla. Where does time go. Good wishes and thanks to you all!
That film was a gem. Graet to see those classic British aircraft and helicopters in action. The Brits as I see it beat the insurgents at their own game, on the own land. Done without drones, high tech precision munitions, B-52 strikes, with limited air support by fixed wing and rotary, and no fast jets endlessly circling on call for air support. Well done!
I was there from 1965 June 1967. Got my Fiat 1500 there and shipped it home. It is good to see some excellent shots of the Beverleys I (RAF) worked on doing their job. The best part of the tour was coming home even though the swimming at the Italian club was good. The British Army did a fantastic job there. Best army in the world. Nice work Italianoboy thanks for putting this film up.
I lived in Aden from 1965 to 67 ,many happy memories of steamer point and the school , remember going to school early in the morning and finishing early then going horseriding or swimming at elephant bay , would love to see what it is like now
I was there at school too! Dark hair, crisp white shirt and shorts with a Khormaksar School badge (was it a dhow?), so maybe we passed each other. Dad was RAF. We lived in a big house with a stone staircase and two sets of shutters for protection from sand storms. It was opposite the search compound so we had a sentry with a rifle. I played in the school gang, show, singing 'we're riding along on the crest of a wave', very colonial! Ring a bell? Fond poignant memories. I was handsome and tanned then, all the girls followed me home from school when I got back to the UK but I was too shy for all but the prettiest.
I only flew out to Aden for school holidays 65 - 67. Four times I flew on a BOAC VC10, but the last occasion was on an RAF Transport Command Britannia flying from Lyneham - that was an uncomfortable journey! The war stories may have been true, especially if he spent time up-country, in the dessert. Even in the built-up areas there was danger - grenades in the street during the day, gun battles at night etc. maxwellfan55 - I guess that your dad was a senior officer. My father was Sqn.Ldr. and we lived in a flat in Ma'ala straight. One day I'll look through some of my dad's old cine film to see whether there's anything worth posting - I know that there were some shots of the floods in April 67.
Trust me ma'am... it's nothing to write home about. My Mother was born in Aden and left in 1962. She says it was the best thing ever growing up there. but now??? plz stay away cos it's nothing but a backward and (unfortunately) destroyed country...ALL by the locals own hands...I was working for Doctors without Borders in 2015 when it all kicked off... TRAGEDY is the ONLY word to describe Aden now... sad.
Takes me back to when I was 18 years old and serving my country in the British Army boy I loved Aden in Radfan Camp tea banjo from the locals, wish I could get that compo cheese that was on the sarny with Tomato and a mug of tea.
wish that Britain never left according to what we have heard from our elders that the Britannic era was the best era in their life .. greetings from ADEN :)
@Abdullah Alkhaldy The Brits never went around killing people for no reason in this time period, we have law and order - we pretty much invented it globally - they would only kill you if you gave them a damn good reason to.
WoW this is where i was born 1963, 50 years ago this year. this is the first real footage of Aden i've seen can't wait to show my mother who now at 75 lives in a nursing home, I hope it brings back some memories for her also Dak. I'm getting old now 50...lol
Love the scene where the RAF Regiment is purporting to 'hold the rebels at bay'. Those who remember the SLR will notice no spent brass leaving the ejection opening cover with the sound of small arms fire being subsequently 'dubbed in' for effect.
Hi John... found this for you, hope you like it.... My Dad was in Aden 50-53... Unfortunately we have no pictures.... he used to have conversations with several people about Pimms in the 80s... He was a Gin & Tonic Man...Cheers!.... ruclips.net/video/t7Wo93JruLo/видео.html
My father was posted here in the early to mid 60s i believe, he absolutely enjoyed his time here. Says he remembers being on Elephant bay beach and he bought a nose from a sawfish from an Arab chap on the beach, he still has it. He still talks about it today at 87 years of age
Welcome againe and my home is your home I offer u everything in aden for free We really missing you The great people U r very kind people So welcome anytime
@Sub Zero your angry agenda doesnt fit all the other posters from Aden. You probably dont live there anyway, just tell Adens how to think. You threatened to spill blood in London. Perhaps you live there.
My grandad was a high ranking NCO in the RAF ground crew engineers over there I can’t find any history of his service do you have any idea on where to look?
my dad was working in Aden for the GDR in the 80s, i remember great adventure and how poor yemen is..... now even worse. i used to go fishing for tuna with some fishermen..........great memories. the spirit of the british empire was there too and it remained in my soul.
WoooooW great video for my lovely home town is getting worst and worst I think some of British want to come back to Aden to see it again to bring back some memories ^_^
Me too Sam, but then we were amongst the so called selfish Brits referred to in a comment above made by someone clearly not aware of what it was like or recognising the truth of the situation. Nevertheless I hope that peace will be restored and the limited freedoms allowed by their own rulers and regimes will prevail, and bring them happiness and prosperity.
VC10 , blimey I was still getting moved around the world on them in the 90's , I had no idea they had been service that long . Beautiful plane but very noisy but fast .
We were there 65-66, I still hate the heat! LOL! My dad was in engineering, a Wing Commander by then. He joined as an apprentice in Halton 1935, commisioned in 1941. Retired from the RAF in 1975.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the British withdrawal of aden. Independence day .I was born in carter clinic I lived place called qaloah for 5 years then moved to main street mualla. .I bear a lot of memories.i still remember dr Frances in the clinic ..I hoped the independence brings to aden better life unfortunately we lived wore ever seen with socialism I flew the country to north. For other 18 years. Last 18 year I lived with my family in dubai. .working as aircraft engineer. What I want to say we loved aden but we don't have choice to stay there all of us.
Hey Those were Radfans. There was an RAF strip there. The beach is Gulmohar (Elephant Bay) lovely to swim there. You're then seeing the Hunters at RAF Khormaksar Flt. 1417 perhaps. What they achieved rocketing the Radfans only God knows. Remember the patrolling on the streets of Crater by Mad Mich's Argyls. Remember my parents and brothers taking us there to fly plastic kites. Dad would relax listening to music on his National Transister. We'd head back home and watch Egyptian movies on the B&W telly while dad had his Carlsberg beer on the Balcony. Good Old Aden. The Selfish Brits left when there was nothing worthwhile to hang on to. What happened after that is one sorry story. My heart bleeds for Aden. InshAllah..Some day maybe...Does any one remember Aden Electrical & General Stores... or Asiatic General stores. R.I.P Peshotan Faramji Buhariwalla.
Jamshid Buhariwalla Also it appears in the video of Dali Mountains. I hope to come back another time in Britain to South Yemen. Because we are now living in a very harsh life in the south because of the northern occupation
thank you for those words you wrote about Aden I miss it too so badly I haven't ben back sence 1979 and you brought me a lot of memory's ....I'm lived not more then 5mnt from Sierra
I was amongst the so called selfish Brits referred to in a comment above made by someone clearly not aware of what it was like or recognising the truth of the situation. Nevertheless, I hope that peace will be restored, and the limited freedoms allowed by your own rulers and regimes will prevail, and bring you happiness and prosperity. More importantly I hope peace will soon break out throughout all the nations of the Middle East, where the daily human tragedies presently prevail.
I remember going to school on the bus up the hill, my dad was in the army and we lived in a flat in steamer point ,recall the barbed wire meshing on the veranda, then moved onto the base and stayed in the flats near the beach, can't remember many people except Philip and Alan thorn, does that ring any bells for you?
A long time later in a secret spy base I worked with Jimmy, who was there ,with him was Doreen, who had the most wonderful brxxxxs, she was a school bus escort and carried a Sterling, And did range time... did I mention she had the most Wonderfull ... Oh I did , dear Doreen.
13.05 - I can hear the rounds being fired, I can see the effect of the kick as the weapon recoils, just can't see the working parts cycling through or the spent cases being ejected....
At that time, I spent a lot of time as a kid watching the big, slow, noisy Bevs from Thorney Island ranging the skies over Pompey and beyond, thrilling to the deep growl of their Bristol Centaurus engines and dreaming that one day I too would sit in the pilot's seat of a big RAF transport. Never happened though. Did pilot a broom or two in the Army Air Corps. So much for childish dreams. Aw well.😩
Stationed in Bahrain (joint comms) RAF chaps would get a trip to Aden to ee a doctor (duty free shopping really), on arrival there and snug in a bunk , the doctor scam would be cancelled and they would go duty free shopping.
Brought back many memories. I was a medic at Fremar then renamed Habilayn 1966 to Nov 1967. Thought it was really great. Is there more lurking out on RUclips. You can see Fremar as it was in 1967 on my feed 504Dak.
Hey, Apologies Mate. You're right. Just a lose comment stemming from frustration. Its history and we can only pray that peace prevails and the place gets back some of its glory. Cheers!
you were fine in the 80s beeing more democratic and liberal then the north, but you sold it to the tribes. Keep your Mind healthy and your eyes open instead of getting a whole nation into the deep sleep of Quat!
The British didn't want to leave in the first place, it was such a vital and important location, you kicked them out! However I'm sorry for what your people are going through at the moment, but I'm sure it will get better!
I was there as a school kid from 1965-1967. I went to Khormaksar Secondary school, The place was a total shit hole but we did get a 2 week R&R in Kenya half way through, It also prepare a red me for when I joined the Army in 1969
Well.....I joined the RAF in 1955......and spent the next 27 years avoiding postings like this!....mind you, it was tough at RAF Labuan; the beer fridges kept breaking down.
just found Dr Jean-pascal_Grelleyt- Bosviel U-tube would like to say hello from Gerry- and Edgar Middlesex memorial hospital -1958- USA . What wonderful work. " you have done Toute one vie d'humanitaire"
السنا نحن "الشماليين" من عاهد الجنوب ثم خناه ؟ السنا نحن من رحب بألوية الجنوب في الشمال ثم بــ عمران غدرناه ؟ ألم تكن قلوبنا مع الجنوب ثم بسلاحنا ذبحناه ؟ السنا نحن من توحدنا في 90 مع الجنوب وفي عام 94 بجيوشنا غزيناه و بجُـندنا ودباباتنا احتليناه .. ؟ السنا نحن من نكلنا بالجيش الجنوبي ثم من الخدمة سرحناه ..؟ السنا نحن من سلمنا " البيض " دولة ذات سيادة ثم شردناه .. ؟ قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر وحُكامنا بلطجيه ------------------------ السنا نحن من والىء الامام البدر ثم بعناه ؟ وناصرنا الجيش المصري ثم غدرناه ؟ وعاهدنا الثائر الثـُلايا ثم لعناه ؟ وبكينا الرئيس "الحمدي " بعد ان قتلناه ؟ السنا نحن قطاع الطرق وخونه والدار هدرنا دم الجنوبي وغدرنا بالصديق وهجمنا على الجار ؟ نرتدي عمائم حمراء وقمصان بيضاء وما تحتها عار قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه -------------------------- السنا نحن جيش القبيله و الافندم والجنرال ؟ وبائعي شرف المهنه بــــالريال ؟ و انصار البغل عبد الملك .. واتباع صالح الدجال ؟ و خُدام اللصوص وارباب النفوذ والمال ؟ واتباع الشيطان تحت القميص والسروال قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه .. ---------------------------- السنا نحن من غـزا الجنوب في 94 تحت شعار الوحده والشرعيه ؟ واطلقنا ضدهم الفتاوي التكفيريه ؟ كفرناهم .. وحللنا دمائهم بتهمة الشيوعيه ؟ ومسحنا من الخارطه كل مايتعلق بتاريخ الجنوب والهويه .. ومن ثم تقاسمنا السلطه الدينيه والسياسيه وتقلدنا المناصب الايراديه والقياديه واستولينا على مقدرات الجنوب واراضيه وثرواته النفطيه فسدنا .. وافسدنا ، واثرينا ثراءً بلا مشروعيه جنينا الاموال - وبنينا القصور - وابرمنا العقود والصفقات التجاريه .. وقتلنا الابرياء .. ونكلنا بكل جنوبي يدعي ان للجنوب قضية . ومن ثم اعتذرنا عما سلف في مؤتمر حوارتنا الوهميه لنبقي الجنوب رهينة ضمن الدوله اليمنيه .. قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه --------------------------- لم نعتبر ! و كررنا المأساه في 2015 بنفس الاسلوب واكثر دمويه وقاتلنا ، وقتلنا الجنوبيين بكل وحشيه بتهمة دواعش وطواغيت وارهابيه انصعنا لرغبات المخلوع الشخصيه .. والحوثي موالي ايران المجوسيه .. استبحنا الارض والعرض وروعنا النساء والاطفال وارتكبنا ابشع المجازر ضد الابرياء وهجرنا الالاف من يارهم .. ودمرنا كل الُبنيه التحتيه من مياه وطرقات وكهرباء وخدمات صحيه ومنعنا عنهم الغذاء والدواء والخدمات الأساسيه بطريقه تتنافى مع كل القيم الانسانيه والعقيده الاسلاميه قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه -------------------------------- السنا نحن من حفر الخنادق في عـدن والكهوف ؟ وملئناها بالسلاح والصواريخ والقاذفات الجويه السنا نحن من عشق رائحة الموت ؟ وكنا نبتسم حين نرى جثة الجنوبي على قارعة الطريق مرميه .. ونهلل فرحاً حين نرى ماحل بعـدن من دمار في النشرات الاخباريه . السنا نحن من مارس الدجل والكذب في الاعلام والصحف المحليه السنا نحن من كذب على العالم باننا الضحيه .. لنرضي لصوصاً وقوادين وقتلة وسفاحين بأسم المسيره القرانيه قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر..وساستنا بلطجيه ------------------------------- حاربنا في خنادق عفاش ومع انصاراللات والاخوانجيه وصدقنا هيئة علماء المفلسين وفتاويهم الدينيه وناصرنا انصار ايران المجوس ضد الخليج والسعوديه بربكم .. هل رأيتم كهذا الحجم من الدناءة والحقاره والهمجيه ؟ قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه ---------------------------------------- قسماً نحـــن مجـرد خـُـــــراف تقودنا مرجعية زيديه صفويه وأخرى زيديه توجهها هيئة دينيه تمضرطية وتجمعنا دار فيها كل القاذورات الفئويه والطائفيه تحوي اكبرمستنقع اوساخٍ على سطح الكرة الارضية ويحكمنا في الدار اربعه ساسه بلطجيه : أولهم : زعيم كذابٌ سافل يحمل احقاد دموية ومسلوب العقل بعصبية .. والثاني : طفل حوثي صفوي جاهل لا يفقه الا التبعية .. والثالث : زنديق ارهابي .. له طاعه عمياء تفوق كل الطاعات الابويه .. والرابع : افندم منتهي الصلاحية من انصار الحثوعفاشيه .. هكذا نحـــــــن حياتنا حروب اهليه وشمالنا .. اكبر حديقة قطعان بشرية لا نعرف ماذا تعني الدولة المدنيه ولسنا دعاة سلام .. وليس لدينا قضيه قسماً .. قسماً نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه يارب
And wevlove you too From aden Please come back to aden Fuck ali saleh and fuck the new allied yemen They all theifs We need the british empire to come back againe
Hello Aden History Just get into you tube and write any thing from Aden, you will be astonished to see many many things about Aden, you can also write British time in Aden and you find just as much... Good luck to you and God bless all the people who shares Aden Memories with us. Baz
Does anyone know what weapon some of the sentries are carrying from 6:21- 6:28 One sentry has a rifle slung. But what is the weapon some are carrying in their right hand has they boarding a transport aircraft? During this scene, the narrator says the following: "The sentries, going off duty, head back for a quick beer and a slow game of cards. But, however much they relax,.."
The pictures are fascinating but the commentary is poor: bad script and bad acting. The things that you see are, mostly, real, but the action narrative is almost certainly a lie. I do not believe there was any rebel attack, or that a man gashed his arm just as the film crew was there, which makes the whole thing seem pompous; which is a shame considering what a tiny number of British servicemen achieved.
Yes i’m afraid those “rebel attack” scenes are certain to have been a completely staged recreation of an actual attack, which unfortunately was very much the style back then, partly due to the equipment they had available, which was much more cumbersome and time consuming to set up and get recording, unlike today where it is almost instantaneous. And then partly because that utterly contrived ‘perfect’ depiction of the events is what people wanted back in those days, the gritty, right-in-the-heat-of-battle style commonplace with today’s conflict documentaries, where the footage is sometimes jerky or out of focus, would have been considered to be of poor quality and filled with mistakes.
I welcome the return of colonialism again, it was more useful to us Queen Elizabeth the Queen He admitted that the biggest mistake in our country was the exit of the English from them My love and respect for the queen lived
حمدالله على الحريه.... احسن من الاحتلال مهما كان احتلال دحباشي او اجنبي و مع الاسف ناس من امثالك ضيعو الثقه بال الحياة. يا اخي كن مفتخر بحريتك وعروبتك والله معانا..... اومن بالله
An astonishing document that records one of the lasts lights of the "British Empire" with all the predictable rhetoric. A newer empire holds sway and claims the same rhetoric. In some ways, nothing has changed in millennia - same sort of rhetoric, same sort of killing. On Aden the Brits bathed on the beaches, in Britain the Romans bathed in their great bath complexes. And they fought and killed - were killed and fought.
The exceptionalism of this film is laughable. With respect to those British in the comments with an attachment to Aden, the British were fairly and squarely kicked out of South Yemen. They had no real business being there other than clinging on to the last vestiges of Empire in a dirty campaign to suppress self determination. All in all they handled the withdrawal situation poorly and it was only greed and a strategic port that motivated their presence.
Dear brother . lm from Yemen, Aden, and my grandfather worked loyally for Britain in the port of Aden, and he lived among you, and he speaks highly of your kindness and good morals. By God, we are sad about your departure from Aden. They lied to us. Aden in your days was beautiful, with good law and order, and we hope that you will return to Aden again, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you to every British person. We love you very much, my dear brother
There was no such thing as Yemen (South Arabia)
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OMG yes what memories! We were in Aden 1961/63 may Dad was RAF Flt Lt TH Rowe (Tom) in charge of Air movements from Khormaksar, my mum Isabella and brother Dudley. We went to Chapel Hill school Steamer Point. I was seven to ten years old. We lived in Steamer Point briefly and then Maalla. Where does time go. Good wishes and thanks to you all!
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Occupation soldiers, you must be so proud of your parents who colonised Yemen, pathetic.
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That film was a gem. Graet to see those classic British aircraft and helicopters in action. The Brits as I see it beat the insurgents at their own game, on the own land. Done without drones, high tech precision munitions, B-52 strikes, with limited air support by fixed wing and rotary, and no fast jets endlessly circling on call for air support. Well done!
نحن يمانيون يا من ليس تعرفنا ، نحن الذي قاومكم في السيف وسكين ، وانتم كنتم تملكون كل انواع الضخاير ، نحن ملوك الأرض نحن الذي حكمكم ايام الحميرين
@@husseinalawe8547 but we still beat you whilst your made love to goats
I was there from 1965 June 1967. Got my Fiat 1500 there and shipped it home. It is good to see some excellent shots of the Beverleys I (RAF) worked on doing their job. The best part of the tour was coming home even though the swimming at the Italian club was good. The British Army did a fantastic job there. Best army in the world. Nice work Italianoboy thanks for putting this film up.
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I lived in Aden from 1965 to 67 ,many happy memories of steamer point and the school , remember going to school early in the morning and finishing early then going horseriding or swimming at elephant bay , would love to see what it is like now
I was there at school too! Dark hair, crisp white shirt and shorts with a Khormaksar School badge (was it a dhow?), so maybe we passed each other. Dad was RAF. We lived in a big house with a stone staircase and two sets of shutters for protection from sand storms. It was opposite the search compound so we had a sentry with a rifle. I played in the school gang, show, singing 'we're riding along on the crest of a wave', very colonial! Ring a bell? Fond poignant memories. I was handsome and tanned then, all the girls followed me home from school when I got back to the UK but I was too shy for all but the prettiest.
I only flew out to Aden for school holidays 65 - 67. Four times I flew on a BOAC VC10, but the last occasion was on an RAF Transport Command Britannia flying from Lyneham - that was an uncomfortable journey!
The war stories may have been true, especially if he spent time up-country, in the dessert. Even in the built-up areas there was danger - grenades in the street during the day, gun battles at night etc.
maxwellfan55 - I guess that your dad was a senior officer. My father was Sqn.Ldr. and we lived in a flat in Ma'ala straight.
One day I'll look through some of my dad's old cine film to see whether there's anything worth posting - I know that there were some shots of the floods in April 67.
Maureen Wilson can u give me ur email so I can send u pics ,I live in aden and I can help u to get ur memories back
Trust me ma'am... it's nothing to write home about. My Mother was born in Aden and left in 1962. She says it was the best thing ever growing up there. but now??? plz stay away cos it's nothing but a backward and (unfortunately) destroyed country...ALL by the locals own hands...I was working for Doctors without Borders in 2015 when it all kicked off... TRAGEDY is the ONLY word to describe Aden now... sad.
Maureen Wilson I was there then too!
Takes me back to when I was 18 years old and serving my country in the British Army boy I loved Aden in Radfan Camp tea banjo from the locals, wish I could get that compo cheese that was on the sarny with Tomato and a mug of tea.
wish that Britain never left according to what we have heard from our elders that the Britannic era was the best era in their life ..
greetings from ADEN :)
Forget it. It was a shithole, we got out early for a good reason.
Malak AL Sawy , sorry for what is happening in your country now , I hope peace and normal comes soon .
@Abdullah Alkhaldy The Brits never went around killing people for no reason in this time period, we have law and order - we pretty much invented it globally - they would only kill you if you gave them a damn good reason to.
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I hear this too.
WoW this is where i was born 1963, 50 years ago this year. this is the first real footage of Aden i've seen can't wait to show my mother who now at 75 lives in a nursing home, I hope it brings back some memories for her also Dak.
I'm getting old now 50...lol
God bless your mum.
Love the scene where the RAF Regiment is purporting to 'hold the rebels at bay'. Those who remember the SLR will notice no spent brass leaving the ejection opening cover with the sound of small arms fire being subsequently 'dubbed in' for effect.
Brilliant. Wish there was one related to Steamer Point around 66/67 when I was there.
Hi John... found this for you, hope you like it.... My Dad was in Aden 50-53... Unfortunately we have no pictures.... he used to have conversations with several people about Pimms in the 80s... He was a Gin & Tonic Man...Cheers!.... ruclips.net/video/t7Wo93JruLo/видео.html
My father was posted here in the early to mid 60s i believe, he absolutely enjoyed his time here. Says he remembers being on Elephant bay beach and he bought a nose from a sawfish from an Arab chap on the beach, he still has it. He still talks about it today at 87 years of age
Good Old Aden. I miss it so much. My birth place.
Welcome againe and my home is your home
I offer u everything in aden for free
We really missing you
The great people
U r very kind people
So welcome anytime
we miss u
We Miss You In Aden 💙
@Sub Zero your angry agenda doesnt fit all the other posters from Aden. You probably dont live there anyway, just tell Adens how to think. You threatened to spill blood in London. Perhaps you live there.
My dad was RAF Regiment. Last ones out of the airport when we gave it up. He saw action out there in the mountains.
My grandad was a high ranking NCO in the RAF ground crew engineers over there I can’t find any history of his service do you have any idea on where to look?
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nice one about past of #Aden thanks for sharing
my dad was working in Aden for the GDR in the 80s, i remember great adventure and how poor yemen is..... now even worse. i used to go fishing for tuna with some fishermen..........great memories. the spirit of the british empire was there too and it remained in my soul.
بكل سرور نرحب بك
Amazing thanks soo much that was best days.... great Britain
WoooooW great video for my lovely home town is getting worst and worst
I think some of British want to come back to Aden to see it again to bring back some memories ^_^
Sami AL-Amir I hope to come back British
My dad was based there. Still have all the photos he took and his medal
Can't say I enjoyed it but I was there and although hard work, the work was the best part of it. Apart from leaving on a VC10!
Me too Sam, but then we were amongst the so called selfish Brits referred to in a comment above made by someone clearly not aware of what it was like or recognising the truth of the situation. Nevertheless I hope that peace will be restored and the limited freedoms allowed by their own rulers and regimes will prevail, and bring them happiness and prosperity.
VC10 , blimey I was still getting moved around the world on them in the 90's , I had no idea they had been service that long . Beautiful plane but very noisy but fast .
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Im from Aden i ❤ England so much.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
انا من مدينه عدن نشكر بريطانيا على بناء معالم جميله تركتها لنا
Hi david carnell,
I was at Mukerius for 5 weeks and then covered the withdrawal of the 303 Sigs Radar.
Thanks for such good times spent in Aden in the sixties with my parents they will never come again but memories will keep in my heart
The days when we had some military muscle and before the bloody politicians disarmed us.
Yea, that was back in the good old days.
Now its all about money and how it will cost em
We still do lol.
We Miss You In Aden 💙
We were there 65-66, I still hate the heat! LOL! My dad was in engineering, a Wing Commander by then. He joined as an apprentice in Halton 1935, commisioned in 1941. Retired from the RAF in 1975.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the British withdrawal of aden. Independence day .I was born in carter clinic I lived place called qaloah for 5 years then moved to main street mualla. .I bear a lot of memories.i still remember dr Frances in the clinic ..I hoped the independence brings to aden better life unfortunately we lived wore ever seen with socialism I flew the country to north. For other 18 years. Last 18 year I lived with my family in dubai. .working as aircraft engineer. What I want to say we loved aden but we don't have choice to stay there all of us.
Thanks for posting great to see some film of Aden back in the 60s.
Hey Those were Radfans. There was an RAF strip there. The beach is Gulmohar (Elephant Bay) lovely to swim there. You're then seeing the Hunters at RAF Khormaksar Flt. 1417 perhaps. What they achieved rocketing the Radfans only God knows. Remember the patrolling on the streets of Crater by Mad Mich's Argyls. Remember my parents and brothers taking us there to fly plastic kites. Dad would relax listening to music on his National Transister. We'd head back home and watch Egyptian movies on the B&W telly while dad had his Carlsberg beer on the Balcony. Good Old Aden. The Selfish Brits left when there was nothing worthwhile to hang on to. What happened after that is one sorry story. My heart bleeds for Aden. InshAllah..Some day maybe...Does any one remember Aden Electrical & General Stores... or Asiatic General stores. R.I.P Peshotan Faramji Buhariwalla.
Jamshid Buhariwalla Also it appears in the video of Dali Mountains. I hope to come back another time in Britain to South Yemen. Because we are now living in a very harsh life in the south because of the northern occupation
thank you for those words you wrote about Aden I miss it too so badly I haven't ben back sence 1979 and you brought me a lot of memory's ....I'm lived not more then 5mnt from Sierra
Jamshid, Before my time I'm afraid and no one knows Aden Elect & Gen Stores. Not even the Adeni people. Things have changed man, Move on.
I was amongst the so called selfish Brits referred to in a comment above made by someone clearly not aware of what it was like or recognising the truth of the situation. Nevertheless, I hope that peace will be restored, and the limited freedoms allowed by your own rulers and regimes will prevail, and bring you happiness and prosperity. More importantly I hope peace will soon break out throughout all the nations of the Middle East, where the daily human tragedies presently prevail.
Jamshid Buhariwalla
My dad surveyed and laid the flare path for the Beverley’s at Thumier.
Interesting to see Twin Pioneers and Bristol Belvederes in service.
We really miss those nice pritish people .. The great empire is the british
We love very much
My home land aden
Learn to spell 1st
No Please No
Amen
I remember going to school on the bus up the hill, my dad was in the army and we lived in a flat in steamer point ,recall the barbed wire meshing on the veranda, then moved onto the base and stayed in the flats near the beach, can't remember many people except Philip and Alan thorn, does that ring any bells for you?
A long time later in a secret spy base I worked with Jimmy, who was there ,with him was
Doreen, who had the most wonderful brxxxxs, she was a school bus escort and carried
a Sterling, And did range time... did I mention she had the most Wonderfull ... Oh I did , dear Doreen.
My father was in Aden as an RAF Regiment gunner
13.05 - I can hear the rounds being fired, I can see the effect of the kick as the weapon recoils, just can't see the working parts cycling through or the spent cases being ejected....
That's because they were almost certainly just pretending for this movie.
RAF regiment pretending...
At that time, I spent a lot of time as a kid watching the big, slow, noisy Bevs from Thorney Island ranging
the skies over Pompey and beyond, thrilling to the deep growl of their Bristol Centaurus engines and
dreaming that one day I too would sit in the pilot's seat of a big RAF transport.
Never happened though. Did pilot a broom or two in the Army Air Corps. So much for childish dreams. Aw well.😩
My birth place born January 1961, Steamer Point.
My Dad worked for International Air Radio, anybody remember? We were in Aden from 59-63..x
Stationed in Bahrain (joint comms) RAF chaps would get a trip to Aden to ee a doctor (duty free shopping really), on arrival there and snug in a bunk , the doctor scam would be cancelled and they would go duty free shopping.
Brings back memories - 45 Commando, Royal Marines.
Brought back many memories. I was a medic at Fremar then renamed Habilayn 1966 to Nov 1967. Thought it was really great. Is there more lurking out on RUclips.
You can see Fremar as it was in 1967 on my feed 504Dak.
I came here after watching BBC's The Last Post.
Same
It's worth viewing "Soldier in the sun", an army point of view on BBC iplayer but not always.
Hey, Apologies Mate. You're right. Just a lose comment stemming from frustration.
Its history and we can only pray that peace prevails and the place gets back some of its glory. Cheers!
i hope to come back British
NO
mehdhar ali rerr
mehdhar ali الظاهر تبي العبودية
you were fine in the 80s beeing more democratic and liberal then the north, but you sold it to the tribes. Keep your Mind healthy and your eyes open instead of getting a whole nation into the deep sleep of Quat!
The British didn't want to leave in the first place, it was such a vital and important location, you kicked them out! However I'm sorry for what your people are going through at the moment, but I'm sure it will get better!
gotyah jilde jilde
I was there as a school kid from 1965-1967. I went to Khormaksar Secondary school, The place was a total shit hole but we did get a 2 week R&R in Kenya half way through, It also prepare a red me for when I joined the Army in 1969
Great stuff
Well.....I joined the RAF in 1955......and spent the next 27 years avoiding postings like this!....mind you, it was tough at RAF Labuan; the beer fridges kept breaking down.
ايام ياعدن
Great piece of film. Anything else like this?
Brilliant
just found Dr Jean-pascal_Grelleyt- Bosviel U-tube would like to say hello
from Gerry- and Edgar Middlesex memorial hospital -1958- USA . What wonderful work. " you have done Toute one vie d'humanitaire"
السنا نحن "الشماليين" من عاهد الجنوب ثم خناه ؟
السنا نحن من رحب بألوية الجنوب في الشمال ثم بــ عمران غدرناه ؟
ألم تكن قلوبنا مع الجنوب ثم بسلاحنا ذبحناه ؟
السنا نحن من توحدنا في 90 مع الجنوب وفي عام 94 بجيوشنا غزيناه
و بجُـندنا ودباباتنا احتليناه .. ؟
السنا نحن من نكلنا بالجيش الجنوبي ثم من الخدمة سرحناه ..؟
السنا نحن من سلمنا " البيض " دولة ذات سيادة ثم شردناه .. ؟
قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر وحُكامنا بلطجيه
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السنا نحن من والىء الامام البدر ثم بعناه ؟
وناصرنا الجيش المصري ثم غدرناه ؟
وعاهدنا الثائر الثـُلايا ثم لعناه ؟
وبكينا الرئيس "الحمدي " بعد ان قتلناه ؟
السنا نحن قطاع الطرق وخونه والدار
هدرنا دم الجنوبي وغدرنا بالصديق وهجمنا على الجار ؟
نرتدي عمائم حمراء وقمصان بيضاء وما تحتها عار
قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه
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السنا نحن جيش القبيله و الافندم والجنرال ؟
وبائعي شرف المهنه بــــالريال ؟
و انصار البغل عبد الملك .. واتباع صالح الدجال ؟
و خُدام اللصوص وارباب النفوذ والمال ؟
واتباع الشيطان تحت القميص والسروال
قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه ..
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السنا نحن من غـزا الجنوب في 94 تحت شعار الوحده والشرعيه ؟
واطلقنا ضدهم الفتاوي التكفيريه ؟
كفرناهم .. وحللنا دمائهم بتهمة الشيوعيه ؟
ومسحنا من الخارطه كل مايتعلق بتاريخ الجنوب والهويه ..
ومن ثم تقاسمنا السلطه الدينيه والسياسيه
وتقلدنا المناصب الايراديه والقياديه
واستولينا على مقدرات الجنوب واراضيه وثرواته النفطيه
فسدنا .. وافسدنا ، واثرينا ثراءً بلا مشروعيه
جنينا الاموال - وبنينا القصور - وابرمنا العقود والصفقات التجاريه ..
وقتلنا الابرياء .. ونكلنا بكل جنوبي يدعي ان للجنوب قضية .
ومن ثم اعتذرنا عما سلف في مؤتمر حوارتنا الوهميه
لنبقي الجنوب رهينة ضمن الدوله اليمنيه ..
قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه
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لم نعتبر !
و كررنا المأساه في 2015 بنفس الاسلوب واكثر دمويه
وقاتلنا ، وقتلنا الجنوبيين بكل وحشيه
بتهمة دواعش وطواغيت وارهابيه
انصعنا لرغبات المخلوع الشخصيه .. والحوثي موالي ايران المجوسيه ..
استبحنا الارض والعرض
وروعنا النساء والاطفال
وارتكبنا ابشع المجازر ضد الابرياء
وهجرنا الالاف من يارهم .. ودمرنا كل الُبنيه التحتيه
من مياه وطرقات وكهرباء وخدمات صحيه
ومنعنا عنهم الغذاء والدواء والخدمات الأساسيه
بطريقه تتنافى مع كل القيم الانسانيه والعقيده الاسلاميه
قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه
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السنا نحن من حفر الخنادق في عـدن والكهوف ؟
وملئناها بالسلاح والصواريخ والقاذفات الجويه
السنا نحن من عشق رائحة الموت ؟
وكنا نبتسم حين نرى جثة الجنوبي على قارعة الطريق مرميه ..
ونهلل فرحاً حين نرى ماحل بعـدن من دمار في النشرات الاخباريه .
السنا نحن من مارس الدجل والكذب في الاعلام والصحف المحليه
السنا نحن من كذب على العالم باننا الضحيه ..
لنرضي لصوصاً وقوادين وقتلة وسفاحين بأسم المسيره القرانيه
قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر..وساستنا بلطجيه
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حاربنا في خنادق عفاش ومع انصاراللات والاخوانجيه
وصدقنا هيئة علماء المفلسين وفتاويهم الدينيه
وناصرنا انصار ايران المجوس ضد الخليج والسعوديه
بربكم .. هل رأيتم كهذا الحجم من الدناءة والحقاره والهمجيه ؟
قسماً .. نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه
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قسماً نحـــن مجـرد خـُـــــراف
تقودنا مرجعية زيديه صفويه
وأخرى زيديه توجهها هيئة دينيه تمضرطية
وتجمعنا دار فيها كل القاذورات الفئويه والطائفيه
تحوي اكبرمستنقع اوساخٍ على سطح الكرة الارضية
ويحكمنا في الدار اربعه ساسه بلطجيه :
أولهم : زعيم كذابٌ سافل يحمل احقاد دموية ومسلوب العقل بعصبية ..
والثاني : طفل حوثي صفوي جاهل لا يفقه الا التبعية ..
والثالث : زنديق ارهابي .. له طاعه عمياء تفوق كل الطاعات الابويه ..
والرابع : افندم منتهي الصلاحية من انصار الحثوعفاشيه ..
هكذا نحـــــــن
حياتنا حروب اهليه
وشمالنا .. اكبر حديقة قطعان بشرية
لا نعرف ماذا تعني الدولة المدنيه
ولسنا دعاة سلام .. وليس لدينا قضيه
قسماً .. قسماً
نحن الشماليين شعب مبدائنا الغدر .. وساستنا بلطجيه
يارب
ياقهري علينا وعلى حالنا في عدن..
ليش الغدر هذا كله ونحن شعب طيب مسالم وكنا نؤمن بوحدة الشعب !
حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل .
spent some time there in 1961 at mukerius
My Aden
14 اكتوبر عاااش
Not all bad memories!
كل اسلحتهم المطوره لم تردع الجنوبييين الشجعان فقد هزموهم شر هزيمه
Hi mate, where did you find this video? I'm trying to get permission to use it on behalf of RAF Media.
ايام العز اذبان الوجود البريطاني في الجنوب العربي عدن وردفان
AHEBEK YA ADAN
Thanks
And wevlove you too
From aden
Please come back to aden
Fuck ali saleh and fuck the new allied yemen
They all theifs
We need the british empire to come back againe
Ya Mansoor Ana Mushtaaq la Adan. Wa ina ibn Adan. Ishti Arg3 la Adan. Fakarteni Agnabi
بلاة عليك يا سلاااااام
we love ,whose loves Adan
John and Dak, if you have any pics of Aden pls upload them!
Hello Aden History
Just get into you tube and write any thing from Aden, you will be astonished to see many many things about Aden, you can also write British time in Aden and you find just as much... Good luck to you and God bless all the people who shares Aden Memories with us.
Baz
+Ben “الصاروخ العدني” Abi-Aden ياخوي ترجمة لنه نشتي نعرف ما كانو يقولون
Every bit of kit is BRITISH.
Was there until the day we pulled out the last of us were taken of on HMS Albion - aircraft carrier
rest in peace
old day's
Aden 💖forever.
Indeed
(2.19) Water Bowser curtesy of 3 Field Sqn RE.
the port of aden wanted to remain british. never understood the diminishment of britain with many of its colonies.
😍
hello therr, I am interesting to see films in shabwah, does anybody have them, please send it to me.
Does anyone know what weapon some of the sentries are carrying from 6:21- 6:28 One sentry has a rifle slung. But what is the weapon some are carrying in their right hand has they boarding a transport aircraft? During this scene, the narrator says the following: "The sentries, going off duty, head back for a quick beer and a slow game of cards. But, however much they relax,.."
Sterling SMG 9mm :-)
Stormtrooper blaster riflles ;)
Aah, The price of empire.
The pictures are fascinating but the commentary is poor: bad script and bad acting. The things that you see are, mostly, real, but the action narrative is almost certainly a lie. I do not believe there was any rebel attack, or that a man gashed his arm just as the film crew was there, which makes the whole thing seem pompous; which is a shame considering what a tiny number of British servicemen achieved.
Yes i’m afraid those “rebel attack” scenes are certain to have been a completely staged recreation of an actual attack, which unfortunately was very much the style back then, partly due to the equipment they had available, which was much more cumbersome and time consuming to set up and get recording, unlike today where it is almost instantaneous. And then partly because that utterly contrived ‘perfect’ depiction of the events is what people wanted back in those days, the gritty, right-in-the-heat-of-battle style commonplace with today’s conflict documentaries, where the footage is sometimes jerky or out of focus, would have been considered to be of poor quality and filled with mistakes.
I welcome the return of colonialism again, it was more useful to us
Queen Elizabeth the Queen
He admitted that the biggest mistake in our country was the exit of the English from them
My love and respect for the queen lived
Disagree totally mate
Better be free than occupied you Muppet
حمدالله على الحريه.... احسن من الاحتلال مهما كان احتلال دحباشي او اجنبي و مع الاسف ناس من امثالك ضيعو الثقه بال الحياة. يا اخي كن مفتخر بحريتك وعروبتك والله معانا..... اومن بالله
احسن شي اكون فقير وحررررر واعيش بكرامه لا اكن محتل. يا جماعه ركبو عقولكم الحوثي و المخلوع جننو بكم؟ معتقش
My Yemen
South Yemen !!!!
oh yah we aint got an empire
كنتم طقاة فااخزاكم الله وهزمكم
اكلناكم سلح يا صلبيبن وطلعناكم حفاه عراه
An astonishing document that records one of the lasts lights of the "British Empire" with all the predictable rhetoric.
A newer empire holds sway and claims the same rhetoric. In some ways, nothing has changed in millennia - same sort of rhetoric, same sort of killing. On Aden the Brits bathed on the beaches, in Britain the Romans bathed in their great bath complexes. And they fought and killed - were killed and fought.
All the weapons seem very outdated by 1965 standards.
The exceptionalism of this film is laughable. With respect to those British in the comments with an attachment to Aden, the British were fairly and squarely kicked out of South Yemen. They had no real business being there other than clinging on to the last vestiges of Empire in a dirty campaign to suppress self determination. All in all they handled the withdrawal situation poorly and it was only greed and a strategic port that motivated their presence.
Crap.
They would love to have us back. 😂🪂🪂✌️✌️
A canvass council estate in 65??,i wonder if the narrator was giving us a hint into the not to far distant future..
Fajny film