Aden

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Aden
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Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates: 12.772440°N 45.039271°E
Altitude: 6 m (20 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:  Aden
State/Province:
Country: Yemen
Transport links

Aden, a port city in Yemen, was part of British India from 1838. It was originally governed by Bombay Presidency then became a Chief Commissioner's province. After the Government of India Act (1935) Aden became a separate colony in 1937 and remained under British control until 1963.

There was a cantonment there.

Records

Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library. Aden 1840-1948, IOR N/13; most of the Aden entries also appear in the Bombay returns. These records are included in the digitised records available on the commercial site findmypast

History

Military

British Somaliland

See British Somaliland.
British Somaliland (or more fully, British Somaliland Protectorate) was a British protectorate in present-day northwestern Somalia' established in 1888. Between 1888 and 1898, it was administered by India, through an Indian Political Officer at Aden called “The Political Resident for the Somali Coast”, assisted by residents at Zaila, Bulhar and Berbera.[1] Troops from Aden were garrisoned there. It appears that even prior to 1888, the Indian Government had representatives in Somaliland.
British Somaliland was then administered by the British Foreign Office until 1905 and afterwards by the Colonial Office. It appears however, that at least some officers from the Indian Army , and to a lesser extent Indian Army soldiers, continued to be posted there.

External Links

Historical books online

An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia by Captain F M Hunter, Bombay Staff Corps, Assistant Political Resident, Aden 1877 Archive.org, Ministry Of Culture/Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad Collection.
  • The cantonment at Aden, page 280 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books
  • "Aden" page 475 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org. At this time, Aden cantonment was part of the Bombay Army structure.
  • "Aden", page 260 Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Volume VI Expeditions Overseas by Intelligence Branch, Army Headquarters India 1911 Archive.org
  • The Empire at War edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a catalogue contents description. (Volume 1 British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. Volume 5, British Library Digital file, Contents. Also available Vol-vth. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • "Aden, One Hundred Years of British Rule" by Captain F D I Wood, R A, page 94 Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 69, 1939. Archive.org

Maps

References

  1. Page 4 In Pursuit of the 'Mad Mullah"- Service and Sport in the Somali Protectorate by Captain Malcolm McNeill 1902 Archive.org