# British Order of Battle at the Aden Emergency

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

## Royal Air Force

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

### RAF Regiment

* No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment
* No. 27 Squadron RAF Regiment 1965/66?
* No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment 1965?
* No. 37 Squadron RAF Regiment
* No. 48 Squadron RAF Regiment

## Royal Navy

* HMS Ashanti
* HMS Phoebe
* HMS Intrepid
* HMS Eagle - 800 NAS
* HMS Bulwark
* HMS Albion
* HMS Minerva
* HMS Centaur
* HMS Cambrian
* HMS Fearless
* HMS Auriga
* HMS Hampshire
* HMS Hermes

### Royal Marines

* 40 Commando
* 42 Commando
* 45 Commando

## 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 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