Links
I’d never have dreamt of starting this project if it hadn’t been for FriendsReunited
Next few lines used to give links to various "Reunion" Sites
However, several of the links appear to be 'broken' Please contact Webmaster if you want to add new ones
Some of our school chums commuted across from Little Aden where their dads worked for BP. There is a
specialist site for them with a lot of Little Aden photos (but quite a lot of interest to the rest of us tooThe Boy Scouts Association have their own "reunion" website at
www.ScoutsReunited.co.ukAnd I believe both of our troops are represented there.
I don’t think the Girl Guides Association do anything similar (yet) but you could always write and ask them when they’re going to start.
Some of the other schools I attended have websites – rather better than mine but it’s nice to have something to aim for !
King Alfred School, Plön and Lewes County Grammar School for Boys
And no doubt many people who went to Khormaksar will also have gone to other BFES or SCE schools
e.g.
http://www.prs-wilhelmshaven.co.uk or http://www.windsorsociety.org.uk in GermanySlim School and Bourne School both in Malaysia
Tal Handaq in Malta and St Georges in Hong Kong
There is a BFES/SCE association. Their website has been offline for the last couple of years but I'm pleased to announce that it has now been relaunched at a slightly diferent address : http://www.bfes-sce-association.co.uk
There is an Aden Veterans’ Association
website with lots of Aden related pictures & links.
The Yemen Times makes an interesting change from reading our own papers’ views on what’s happening in the Middle East. On a lighter note, it has a lot of pictures like this one that I think we’ll all recognise.
And we really mustn’t miss out Btopenworld who are hosting this for us.
Or Google – probably one of the best search engines there is. If they can’t find the Aden page you want, you’ll have to write your own !
The great thing about a group’s website is that many people can search the Internet rather more thoroughly than one person working alone. The following table of links has been contributed by several members (but any errors in it are probably my fault) :-
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Ann Swallow (Née Amos) |
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A couple from Surrey went on a trip to the Yemen in 1997 and posted some pictures of Aden |
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Barry Dunlop |
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Some pictures of Front Bay & Yemen plus a brief history of Aden |
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Panorama of Aden & some pictures of Yemen |
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Pictures of Steamer Point & general Yemen (website is in German Language) |
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A travel review of Aden |
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A history of Aden plus a few pictures |
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Picture of Maalla (Previous error now corrected) |
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Picture of Aden from the air with US naval ship 'Cole' in harbour |
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Pictures of Yemen & one of Aden |
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Essentially a nautical map but it shows all the different area of Aden |
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Picture of Front Bay |
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Picture of the Italian Club, one of two swimming clubs in Gold Mohur Bay. The next bay along was called Elephant Bay believed to be because of the shape of the rock that can be seen. |
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Picture of the docks |
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A travel review of Aden |
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A travel review of Aden |
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Someone's memories of Aden |
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History of Aden with pictures from the Port of Aden website |
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Someone's memories of Aden |
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Various pictures of Aden |
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Various memories of Aden from people in the services |
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A couple of pictures of Aden |
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Satellite pictures of Aden & Yemen |
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Picture of Maalla & some of Yemen |
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History of the Port of Aden |
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Eric Mears |
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Another relevant site (mainly about the Argylls who have links to Aden) |
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Above site has a really nice picture of Aden from the sea which looks very like the picture in one of Barry’s links. |
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Duxford Air Museum has lots of RAF aircraft from our era and also a Royal Anglian Regiment display featuring memorabilia from their tour in Aden. This has been suggested as a possible reunion venue. |
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An official Yemen Government tourist site |
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Christ Church, Steamer Point still seems to be in business |
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A super set of Yemeni pictures from a chap in Sanaa. Two of the sets are of Aden. |
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A link also given by Shaif (see EM6 above) to the CIA database for Yemen |
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A website for history of RAF’s Marine Craft Section |
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Garry Kilworth |
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Garry is now a well-known author – one of his books is based upon his experiences at our school in the 1950’s and again in 1967. This link is to his own website where you can find a brief review of "Standing on Shamsan" |
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Pat Mobbs (Née Davies) |
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Several of our members have mentioned travelling on the Nevasa. Pat has found a picture of it in its TS era. |
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There are some pictures of Aden on this site run by former RAF apprentices. Surfing around in that area you’ll probably find some more. |
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A picture of Crater. Possibly others if you surf around ? |
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Alan Grace |
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Alan's found a site that sounds as though it might be run by a present-day Aden resident. I struggled a bit with it on my first visit but I'll certainly have another look at it later as it sounds quite interesting. |
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Mike Downs & Peter Pickering |
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These two OKs have set up a 'Virtual Airline' based on Khormaksar Airport as it was in the 1960s. The site also includes a lot of Aden pictures. |
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Shouldn’t YOUR NAME be here ? |
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