Durham Light Infantry in 1957 written by John Colston
I was in A company and Major Fenner was our company commander, early in January the company went up to the Yemen boarder to sort out the Yemen army who came over the boarder and shot a few Aden Protector Levies. On arrival we set up our base camp and started to remove the Yemei who put up a resistance anyway we attacked the intruders and sorted out the enemy we then took over the fort and held it. next day we were relieved by another platoon. We then went to base camp to rearm to do the next assault but we had to climb up 300feet to take the next objective,we held up because the enemy was pinning us down so Major Fenner radio for air support the two Vampires fighters arrived and fired rockets and also cannon fire and we moved up as the fighters were blasting the enemy any way we got to our objective and took up a defensive position for four days as we could command the valley.
On one occasion i was with Alan 04 and we were on stand to but had to go numbers i said we were on stand to but never made any difference he went anyway the next a shot was fired so up go’s the flares to light the sky and I saw Alan 04 running along the skyline with his trousers around his ankles swearing things about his parents. When he came back to me he showed me his hat comical as we called them with two bullet holes in it, he was lucky that he servived. I think that the hat is now in the Regimental Museum in Durham City.
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I was in A company and Major Fenner was our company commander, early in January the company went up to the Yemen boarder to sort out the Yemen army who came over the boarder and shot a few Aden Protector Levies. On arrival we set up our base camp and started to remove the Yemei who put up a resistance anyway we attacked the intruders and sorted out the enemy we then took over the fort and held it. next day we were relieved by another platoon. We then went to base camp to rearm to do the next assault but we had to climb up 300feet to take the next objective,we held up because the enemy was pinning us down so Major Fenner radio for air support the two Vampires fighters arrived and fired rockets and also cannon fire and we moved up as the fighters were blasting the enemy any way we got to our objective and took up a defensive position for four days as we could command the valley. 
