High Commissioner attack | |
Location: | Khormaksar Airport, Aden |
Date: | 10 December 1963 |
Type: | Bombing |
Perpetrators: | NLF |
Fatalities: | 2 |
Injuries: | 50 |
The High Commissioner attack was an incident which saw the beginning of the Aden Emergency. Arab nationalists of the NLF made a grenade attack against the British High Commissioner, Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, killing one person and injuring 50.[1]
George Henderson, the assistant high commissioner, saved Sir Kennedy's life by pushing him out of the way. Henderson later died of his injuries.[2]
The incident led to Britain declaring a state of emergency in South Arabia.[3]