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
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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

External Links

Historical books online

  • "Aden", page 260 Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Volume VI Expeditions Overseas by Intelligence Branch, Army Headquarters India 1911 Archive.org
  • 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.

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