Unedited news film of the Queens Lancashire Regiment on security duties in Aden in September 1967 during the anti-British Insurgency shows soldiers off-duty in camp, searching Arab taxies and their passengers for arms at Checkpoint Bravo, cookhouse ...
Reel of rushes of 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on patrol in Aden during the Emergency (with live sound during rough searching of Arab suspects), and of mute rushes of British soldiers on patrol, unarmed, in the peaceful British ...
Amateur film shot by Midshipman Ian Shuttleworth while serving on HMS Salisbury in the Far East between August 1963 and September 1964 during Confronation in Borneo records leave in Hong Kong, carrier and helicopter activity, Crossing the Line ...
Film shows diplomatic life in Aden in 1967 at the end of British rule. Also includes military manoeuvres, and ends with sequences of the diplomatic staff making a bonfire of documents marked "Top Secret".
Also further ...
Footage from Mr Day's time as Senior Political Officer in the South Arabian Federation between 1964 and 1967.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Day entered HMOCS as Political Officer, Western Aden Protectorate, in 1961. From 1964-67 he ...
VHS containing various film items illustrating Mr Crouch's life and travels as a British official in Southern Arabia. It shows many aspects of life in the desert, including stunning scenery, military patrols, good shots of the Hadhrami ...
Family shots of Mr Crouch's engagement, wedding & honeymoon in East Africa. Back on duty in Aden, and other holiday footage.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Crouch served as a political officer in the Aden Protectorates and Aden ...
David Dimbleby interviews Sir Donald and Lady Cleland, Close up of questions.
DOCUMENTARY. A report on the political situation in Aden and the role of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Includes an interview with Lt. Col. Colin Campbell Mitchell.
Rediffusion logo (00:04). Opening ...
Measures being taken against communism in Hong Kong. With Sir David Trench, P.S. Woo, David Lai, Elsie Elliott, and police commissioner T.C. Eates
THE REFERENDUM OF SEPTEMBER 10TH 1967 IN WHICH GIBRALTAR> VOTED TO REMAIN A BRITISH COLONY
Portrait of the culture of South Arabia just prior to the revolution and take over of the area by the National Liberation Forces.
DOCUMENTARY. The build-up of British forces in the Gulf States.
The commander of a British platoon in Bahrain, Lt. Pattinson, explaining the reasons for Britain's presence to a group of new arrivals (13). Titles. A military band ...
A information piece on the work of AFBA, the Aden Forces Broadcasting Authority, responsible for the forces' radio entertainment. A short sequence in the middle of the reel shows an Army ...
HMS Albion arrives to help in the withdrawal from Aden. Onshore the Royal Marines stay on the alert.
A small party of British troops, presumably Roman Catholics, prepare for an open- ...
Men of 45 RM Commando are addressed by Major-General Tower before flying out of Khormaksar in RAF Hercules transports.
Royal Marines file past the camera carrying personal arms and kit. CU of General Tower as he ...
Compilation produced by the Royal Navy of various items filmed by Naval cameramen around the world during 1967.
Film opens with an introduction from Lieutenant Richard Baker, latterly a popular broadcaster, who ...
SRN6 (Naval markings) seen in hangar, across water, up beach etc. Being refuelled, people embarking and disembarking, stopping near seal colony, returns to base.
Army patrols in city of Aden conduct house searches and check driver's identity papers. Except at the beginning of the reel, there is little evidence of naval participation.
A sailor ...
I. The departing High Commissioner, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, reviews the Naval task force supporting the British withdrawal. He is accompanied by Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, C-in-C Middle East Command, who is to return ...
I. HA over the parade ground at Radfan Camp (?), covered in heaps of soldiers' kit - a Wessex helicopter approaches to pick up two cargo nets laden with gear and flies off. LA of Wessex picking up more kit. CUs as ...
Combination of film of street scenes in Canton ("first film since the recent trouble") and interviews with two Hong Kong correspondents forms the basis of this report on the purpose and effect of the "great proletarian ...
Report outlines the political background to the stepped-up violence in Aden and shows how conditions for British soldiers and their families are becoming increasingly dangerous.
Anti-British terrorism will not cease, ...
