THE NORTH YEMEN CIVIL WAR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Rare images of the Yemeni Civil War

23 press photographs, dated 1962-1969, various sizes (most approx. 250 x 200 mm.), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of American and British agencies. (A few lightly creased, one image crinkled.)

These press photographs depict images from the civil war between Yemeni royalists, backed by Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Kingdom, and the republicans, backed mainly by the Egyptians and supplied with Soviet arms. There are a number of photographs of Brigadier General Abdullah Sallal, head of the revolutionary government, while others show Imam Mohammed Al-Badr, the Yemeni king. Three images show United Nations observers in 1963, while another five show prisoners of both sides, including a 13 year-old boy in shackles, supposedly a Security Chief. An Egyptian supply ship is shown at the dock side in Hedeida, while another shows U.A.R. troops on exercise supporting Sallal’s republicans.

5 images are reproductions of press photographs, but seemingly used by various media with various associated markings.