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The following units of the British Armed Forces participated in the Aden Emergency

Royal Air Force

• No. 8 Squadron RAF with Hunter FGA.9
• No. 21 Squadron RAF with Twin Pioneer CC.1, Dakota, Andover CC.2
• No. 26 Squadron RAF with Belvedere HC.1
• No. 37 Squadron RAF with Shackleton MR.2
• No. 43 Squadron RAF with Hunter FGA.9
• No. 78 Squadron RAF with Twin Pioneer CC.1, Wessex HC.2
• No. 84 Squadron RAF with Beverley C.1
• No. 105 Squadron RAF with Argosy C.1
• No. 208 Squadron RAF with Hunter FGA.9
• No. 233 Squadron RAF with Valetta C.1
• No. 1417 (Fighter Reconnaissance) Flight RAF with Hunter T.7 & FR.10
• RAF Police Joint Service Command
• No. 123 Signals Unit RAF
• No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment 1965?
• No. 27 Squadron RAF Regiment 1965/66?

Royal Navy

• HMS Ashanti
• HMS Phoebe
• HMS Intrepid
• HMS Eagle
• HMS Bulwark
• HMS Albion
• HMS Minerva
• HMS Centaur
• HMS Cambrian

Royal Marines

• 40 Commando RM
• 42 Commando RM
• 45 Commando RM

British Army

• 22 SAS Regiment
• Royal Armoured Corps
  • 10th Royal Hussars
  • 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
  • 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
  • Queen's Own Hussars
  • Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  • 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
  • Royal Tank Regiment
    • 1st Royal Tank Regiment
    • B Sqn 5th Royal Tank Regiment
• Guards Division
  • 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
  • 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards
  • 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards
  • 1st Battalion, Irish Guards
• Infantry
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Scots
  • 4th Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
  • 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Border Regiment (Various companies in support)
  • 1st Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers B Company
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Royal Anglian Regiment
    • 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
    • 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
    • 4th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment (1965)
      • C Company (1967)
  • 1st Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
  • 1st Battalion, Lancashire Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
  • 1st Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  • 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  • 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers
• Parachute Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment
  • 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
  • 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
• Royal Artillery
  • 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
  • 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
  • 7th (Parachute) Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
  • 19th Light Regiment Royal Artillery
  • 47th Light Regiment Royal Artillery
  • 95th Commando Regiment Royal Artillery
• Royal Engineers
  • 10 Field Squadron (Airfields), Royal Engineers (Nov 1964 - 13 Dec 1967, last unit to leave)
  • 13 Field Survey Squadron Royal Engineers (15 Jan 1964 - 29 Jun 1967)
  • 24 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (15 Oct 1964 - 12 Jul 1965)
  • 30 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (Sep 1966 - Apr 1967)
  • 34 Independent Field Squadron Royal Engineers
    • 2 Troop
  • 39 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (Apr 1967 - Oct 1967)
  • 50 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (Aug 1964 - ?)
    • 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
  • 15 Signal Regiment Royal Corps of Signals (1965 - 1967)
  • 222 (AF) Squadron Air Formation Signals (1959 - 1967)
• Royal Military Police
• Royal Corps of Transport
• Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Royal Army Medical Corps
  • 10 Bde. Grp. Medical Coy R.A.M.C.
  • 24 Field Ambulance
• Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• Royal Army Pay Corps
• Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)
• Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)
• Royal Pioneer Corps (518 Company)
• Army Catering Corps

References

1. Jefford 1988, p. 26. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
2. Jefford 1988, p. 31. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
3. Jefford 1988, p. 33. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
4. Jefford 1988, p. 37. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
5. Jefford 1988, p. 39. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
6. Jefford 1988, p. 48. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
7. Jefford 1988, p. 50. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
8. Jefford 1988, p. 54. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
9. Jefford 1988, p. 69. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
10. Jefford 1988, p. 75. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJefford1988 (help)
11. Lake 1999, p. 88. sfn error: no target: CITEREFLake1999 (help)
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