While looking for some older stamps for next week's post I came across these stamps from Aden with King George VI.
There is a family connection with Aden for me as I know my brother will have called there on the way to Ceylon in the 1940s when he was in the Fleet Air Arm.
To see the stamps others have chosen this week please visit Viridian's Sunday-stamps-165.
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| Aden |
From left to right these show:
- The Harbour
- Aidrus Mosque
- Mukalla
- Capture of Aden 1839
The British East India Company landed Royal Marines at Aden in 1839 to secure the territory and to stop attack on British shipping. Until 1937 the Aden settlement was governed as part of British India. From 1937 it became the Colony of Aden, a British Crown Colony. It remained in British control until 1967 since when it has remained part of Yemen.
There are another two stamps of different denominations showing the Mosque and the port of Mukalla.
There is a family connection with Aden for me as I know my brother will have called there on the way to Ceylon in the 1940s when he was in the Fleet Air Arm.
To see the stamps others have chosen this week please visit Viridian's Sunday-stamps-165.
