British Order of Battle at the Aden Emergency

The following units of the British Armed Forces participated in the Aden Emergency (1963-67).

Saladin Armoured Cars of the Queens Dragoon Guards in Aden 1967

British street patrol in Aden 1967

Royal Air Force

• No. 8 Squadron RAF with the Hawker Hunter FGA.9^[1]
• No. 21 Squadron RAF with the Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.1, Douglas Dakota & Hawker Siddeley Andover CC.2^[2]
• No. 26 Squadron RAF with the Bristol Belvedere HC.1^[3]
• No. 37 Squadron RAF with the Avro Shackleton MR.2^[4]
• No. 43 Squadron RAF with the Hunter FGA.9^[5]
• No. 78 Squadron RAF with the Twin Pioneer CC.1 & Wessex HC.2^[6]
• No. 84 Squadron RAF with the Blackburn Beverley C.1^[7]
• No. 105 Squadron RAF with the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1^[8]
• No. 208 Squadron RAF with the Hunter FGA.9^[9]
• No. 233 Squadron RAF with the Vickers Valetta C.1^[10]
• No. 1417 (Fighter Reconnaissance) Flight RAF with the Hunter T.7 & FR.10^[11]
• RAF Police Joint Service Command
• No. 123 Signals Unit RAF

RAF Regiment

• No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12]
• No. 27 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12] 1965/66?
• No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12] 1965?
• No. 37 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12]
• No. 48 Squadron RAF Regiment^[12]

Royal Navy

• HMS Ashanti
• HMS Phoebe
• HMS Intrepid^[13]
• HMS Eagle^[14] - 800 NAS^[15][16]
• HMS Bulwark
• HMS Albion^[17][14]
• HMS Minerva
• HMS Centaur^[18][19][20]
• HMS Cambrian
• HMS Fearless^[16]
• HMS Auriga^[16]
• HMS Hampshire^[16]
• HMS Hermes^[14][21]

Royal Marines

• 40 Commando
• 42 Commando^[22][14]
• 45 Commando^[20]

British Army

Culvert construction on the Dhala Road by Territorial Army Parachute Engineers

• 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^[20]
  • 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^[23]
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers^[24]
  • Royal Anglian Regiment
    • 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment^[25]
    • 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment^[24][25]
    • 4th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment^[25] (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^[26]
  • 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders^[24]
  • 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers
• Parachute Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment^[22]
  • 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 Brigade. Group. Medical Company R.A.M.C.
  • 24 Field Ambulance
• Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• Royal Army Pay Corps
• Army Air Corps
• Intelligence Corps
• Royal Pioneer Corps (518 Company)
• Army Catering Corps