The High Commissioner Attack was an incident which saw the beginning of the Aden Emergency. Arab nationalists of the NLF made a grenade attack against the British High Commissioner, Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, killing one person and injuring 50.[1]
^"Grenade Thrown Into Aden Airport; 1 Dead". The Canberra Times. 11 December 1963. p. 1. Retrieved 6 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^"News In Brief". The Canberra Times. 3 January 1964. p. 3. Retrieved 6 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Terrorist Grenade Attack", Nashua Telegraph, 9 June 1965 accessed 4 November 2013
External linksEdit
Aden Emergency at the Argylls Website
at National Army Museum
August 31, 2023
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