Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in Aden

By Dave McQueen

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A Saladin that supported us	A road block on the sea road probably outside our barracks as Waterloo barracks was right next to the sea or it could be the ocean road going into Marine drive.
Two Fusiliers guarding the commissioner	A Saladin that supported us
Dave McQueen

A lorry waiting to pick us up from patrol	Me sitting on the roof guarding the commissioner, he was well protected and when we were not on duty we would camp out on the roof until it was our turn to go down to the front of the building.
The road going into Crater	The lads erecting a red flag pole on the beach about 100 yards apart as we use to fire into the sea to get rid of old ammo.I was supprised to see the date on the 7.62mm was 1942.
Dave McQueen posing	The lads posing i can only remember one of them the one kneeling on the left as you look at it was my mate Natrase.

Me guarding the Commissioner again.	The sand bags were checkpoint Charlie our code name for our area on the February riots we were there for 5 days.
Then the Saladins waiting to escort us back after the riots had finished	Steamer point where we concidered it safe to shop
Then the Saladins waiting to escort us back after the riots had finished	Steamer point where we concidered it safe to shop

250 fil note about 25p today	A local throwing a grenade cigarette lighter which he was happy to pose for.
Me and my mate with a local	The char walla asking us what we wanted the salad rolls were lovely but we always seemed to get Aden gut after eating them.
Me looking down at the sandbags you can see in the next image

Our escort again then the middle	You can just see my Company Zulu going into Crater.
Up North we had a tour on the Yemen border of three weeks i took some amazing pictures of the locals but was told they didn't turn out but i suspect they may have been distroyed for fear of identifying someone.

Wadi North on the border if i had a colour camera you would have seen that the scenery quite stunning.We were camped next to an Arab army camp and the town was a few hundred yards away and one night the town was attacked by local rebels it was quite magnificient it didn't concern us but the Arab camp had one casualty he fell down a well while he was watching the battle and sadly died.He came back on our plane on a stretcher.Our plane was a transport plane and had a balck scorpion painted on the tale.

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