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Description and Holding Information
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UK, 1966, Recognition for Service in So. Arabia
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Terms of award of the general service medal, 1962, for service in South Arabia from 1st August 1964: Committee on the Grant of Honours Decorations
and Medals, 3p, Cmnd. 3041, London, HMSO, July1966. (Aden was induced to join the Federation of South Arabia in 1963. The British hoped that the
federation would form the nucleus for an independent successor state; envisioned as a loose union between a self-governing Aden and the tribal areas. But,
while the federation eventually achieved a membership of seventeen, in what proved to be a self-destructing strategy, the large sultanates in the
Eastern Protectorate refused to join. A basic weakness of the federation was its attempt to unite cosmopolitan Aden, with its partially democratic society
and modern economy, with the tribal societies and feudal economies of the protectorate territories. Anti-British leaders formed rival organizations
with the goal of achieving independence for a southern Yemen organized and governed as a modern society. The most effective of these organizations was
the National Liberation Front (NLF), which by 1967 had undermined the federation, deposed many of the rulers in the protectorate, and eliminated its
rivals within the anti-British factions. In the end the British were compelled to abandon the remaining sultans and negotiate with the NLF. They
evacuated their naval base in Aden, and South Yemen achieved independence as the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, on Nov. 30, 1967. This text reports on
some of the fighting undertaken by British forces in opposition to the NLF.)
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Title:
Terms of award of the General Service Medal, 1962 for service in South Arabia from 1st August 1964 / presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury by command of Her Majesty, July 1966.
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OCLC Number:
741626796
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Volume 1 | | Yes | Yes |
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