SOUTHERN ARABIAN PENINSULAR: ADEN PROTECTORATE: BRITISH COLONEL MURDERED BY GUNMEN

Record ID: 189677

  • Title: SOUTHERN ARABIAN PENINSULAR: ADEN PROTECTORATE: BRITISH COLONEL MURDERED BY GUNMEN
  • Date: 30th July 1966
  • Summary: 1. GV TOWN AND ARMY POST 0.05 2. SV COMMANDER INSPECTS ARAB TROOPS 0.10 3. SCU ARAB TROOPS 0.14 4. CU COMMANDER INSPECTS ARAB TROOPS 0.23 5. SV OFFICER 0.24 6. GV TROOPS 0.29 7. SV COMMANDER INSPECTS ANOTHER CONTINGENT 0.42 8. SV BUGLER 0.45 9. LV COMMANDER AND ESCORT WALK ACROSS PARADE GROUND 0.53 Initials HT/VS/MGT/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th August 1966 13:00
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  • Location: ADEN, SOUTHERN ARABIAN PENINSULAR
  • Country: Yemen
  • Reuters ID: LVA1LLJVE556BQZTYMKKE4Y4B6NA
  • Story Text: LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.W.G. GRAY, COMMANDER OF THE HADHRAMI BEDOUIN LEGION, WAS MURDERED BY GUNMEN NEAR MUKALLA, IN THE EASTERN AREA OF THE ADEN PROTECTORATE, YESTERDAY (FRIDAY).

    COLONEL GRAY, A BRITON, WAS RETURNING FROM A CINEMA WITH HIS WIFE THEN THE GUNMAN ATTACKED. COLONEL GRAY WAS WOUNDED IN BOTH LUNGS, BUT MANAGED TO DRIVE TWO MILE TO THE BRITISH RESIDENCY IN MUKALLA, WHERE HE DIED. HIS WIFE WAS CRITICALLY WOUNDED IN THE INCIDENT. SHE WAS LATER FLOWN BY AN R. A. F. AIRCRAFT TO HOSPITAL IN ADEN.

    COLONEL GRAY, WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN 56 YEAR-OLD ON MONDAY (AUGUST 1ST), HAD COMMANDED THE HADHRAMI BEDOUIN LEGION FOR SEVEN-AND-A-HALF YEARS.
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