A foot patrol of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry movesthrough a bazaar in Tawahi (
A foot patrol of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry movesthrough a bazaar in Tawahi (Aden Protectorate, 1965).By the early 1960s, nationalist groups within the Aden Protectorate,and from neighbouring Yemen, were threatening British security. After Britain’s defeat in the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Egyptian PrimeMinister Yasser Arafat, supported by the Soviet Union, began trainingand supplying Yemeni and nationalist fighters, to push the Britishout of the region. -- source link
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