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British Forces Aden was the name given to the
British Armed ForcesThe armed forces of the United Kingdom, known as His/Her Majesty's Armed Forces or sometimes the British Armed Forces, and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, encompasses a navy, an army, and an air force...
stationed in the
Aden ProtectorateAden Protectorate was a British protectorate in southern Arabia in the early and middle 20th century. Together with the Colony of Aden, it subsequently became known as South Arabia and later South Yemen...
during part of the 20th century. Their purpose was to preserve the security of the Protectorate from both internal threats and external aggression.
British Forces Aden was originally formed as
Aden Command in 1928. On its establishment, Aden Command was a
Royal Air ForceThe Royal Air Force is the United Kingdom's air force, the oldest independent air force in the world. Formed on 1 April 1918, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history ever since, playing a large part in World War II and in more recent conflicts.The RAF operates almost 1,109...
commandA command in military use has several meanings.In referring to military organization it is a collection of units or a group of personnel under the control of a single officer...
which was responsible for the control all British armed forces in the Protectorate. It was renamed British Forces in Aden, or simply British Forces Aden in 1936 and renamed again in 1956 as
British Forces Arabian Peninsula. In 1961 the command was renamed once again, this time as
Middle East Command (Aden). In 1967, following the British withdrawal from Aden at the end of
the EmergencyThe Aden Emergency was an insurgency against British crown forces in the eastern and southern parts of what is now the country of Yemen on the southern Arabian Peninsula. It began on 10 December 1963, when a state of emergency was declared in the British Crown Colony of Aden, a British possession...
, the remaining British Forces in the
Arabian PeninsulaThe Arabian Peninsula , Arabia, Arabistan, and the Arabian subcontinent is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia...
were reorganized as British Forces Gulf.
Aden Command
- 8 March 1928 Group Captain
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W G S MitchellAir Chief Marshal Sir William Gore Sutherland Mitchell, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, AFC was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force and the first RAF officer to hold the post of Black Rod....
- 5 September 1929 Group Captain C T Maclean (later Air Commodore
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)
- 7 August 1931 Group Captain O T Boyd
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- 20 January 1934 Group Captain C F A Portal
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(Air Commodore from January 1935)
- 2 December 1935 Air Vice-Marshal
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British Forces Aden
- 1 July 1936 Air Commodore W A McClaughry
- 28 September 1938 Air Vice-Marshal G R M Reid
- 10 September 1941 Air Vice-Marshal F G D Hards
- 12 January 1943 Air Vice-Marshal F H MacNamara
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(RAAFThe Royal Australian Air Force is the Air Force branch of the Australian Defence Force. The RAAF began in March 1912 as the Australian Flying Corps making it the second oldest air force in the world...
)
- 12 March 1945 Air Vice-Marshal H T Lydford
- 8 March 1948 Air Vice-Marshal A C Stevens
- 1 March 1950 Air Vice-Marshal F J Fressanges
- 11 March 1952 Air Vice-Marshal D Macfadyen
- 12 October 1953 Air Vice-Marshal S O Bufton
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- 17 September 1955 Air Vice-Marshal L F Sinclair
British Forces Arabian Peninsula
- 30 September 1957 Air Vice-Marshal M L Heath
- 19 September 1959 Air Chief Marshal
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Sir Hubert PatchAir Chief Marshal Sir Hubert Leonard Patch KCB CBE RAF was a senior Royal Air Force commander. He was Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command from January to August 1956. He then went on to serve as Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Air Force.-References:*|-|-|-...
- 3 August 1960 Air Marshal
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Sir Charles ElworthyMarshal of the Royal Air Force Samuel Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy KG, GCB, CBE, DSO, LVO, DFC, AFC was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.-RAF career:...