High Commissioner Attack
| High Commissioner Attack | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Aden Emergency | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 United Kingdom |
 National Liberation Front (Yemen) | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| Sir Kennedy Trevaskis | |||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
|
1 killed 50 wounded | |||||
The High Commissioner Attack was an incident which saw the beginning of the Aden Emergency. Arab nationalists of the NLF made a grenade attack against the British High Commissioner, Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, killing one person and injuring 50. This led to Britain declaring a state of emergency in the colony.[1][2]
References
- ↑ "Urban Terrorism", Aden at Britains Small Wars
- ↑ "Terrorist Grenade Attack", Nashua Telegraph, 9 June 1965 accessed 4 November 2013
External links
- Aden Emergency at the Argylls Website
- Aden Emergency at National Army Museum