Aden Colony
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Aden Colony was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1963 located in the southern part of modern-day Yemen. It consisted of the port city of Aden and also included the outlying islands of
Esplanade Road in the late 1930s
Sheikh Othman north of Aden
British Forces headquarters
British Aden centennial celebrations, 1939
Aden Province
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The Chief Commissioner's Province of Aden was a province of British Raj under which the former Aden Settlement was placed from 1932 to 1937. Under that new status, the Viceroy of India assumed control
Aden Colony
…the British Empire grew throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Prior to 1937, Aden had been governed as part of British India (originally as the Aden Settlement subordinate to the Bombay Presidency, and then as a Chief Commissioner's province). On 1 April 1937, Aden was separated from British India to become a…
British Aden 1922
The Aden crescent in 1931.
Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly (front row 3d from left), the chief British official of Aden, at a meeting in Lahej; c. 1928–1930.