Childrens Party Attack

Children's Party Attack

Date	December 1964
Location	Aden

Belligerents

United Kingdom

NLF
FLOSY

Casualties and losses

1 killed

Aden Emergency

High Commissioner Attack Childrens Party Attack Radfan Campaign Aden Street Riots Arab Police Mutiny Battle of the Crater Withdrawal from Aden

The Children's Party Attack was a terrorist attack which took place during the Aden Emergency. Terrorists threw a grenade into a children's party being held at the RAF Khormaksar. One girl was killed (Gillian Sidey, daughter of Air Commodore E. Sidey) and four children wounded.^[1]

It was part of a general outbreak of violence around Christmas in Aden 1964: on 26 December Inspector Fadhl Khalil of Aden Special Branch was shot dead when terrorists fired at him and four other policemen in the bazaar at Crater Town. On Christmas Eve a British sentry shot dead an Arab.^[2]

References

↑ "Urban Terrorism", Aden Emergency at Britain's Small Wars
↑ Reuter, A. P., and B. U. P. "Aden alert as terrorists kill police chief." Sunday Times [London, England] 27 Dec. 1964: 2. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.