Sir Gerald Kennedy Nicholas Trevaskis, (1 January 1915 – 14 March 1990) was a British colonial official and army officer. He served as High Commissioner of Aden from 1963 to 1965.Anthony d'Avray, 'Trevaskis, Sir (Gerald) Kennedy Nicholas (1915–1990)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 200
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/ref>'TREVASKIS, Sir (Gerald) Kennedy (Nicholas)', ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201
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/ref> Trevaskis saw active service during the Second World War as a soldier and then officer in the Northern Rhodesia Regiment. In August 1940, he was captured by the Italian forces while serving in British Somaliland, becoming a prisoner of war (POW). Having been released in 1941, he spent the rest of the war serving with the British Military Administration (Eritrea), British Military Administration of Eritrea. On 10 December 1963, Trevaskis High Commissioner attack, came under attack from the Yemeni National Liberation Front (South Yemen), National Liberation Front (NLF). A grenade was thrown at his group at Khormaksar Airport: he was among the wounded and two others were killed. This attack triggered the Aden Emergency.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trevaskis, Kennedy 1915 births 1990 deaths Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Officers of the Order of the British Empire Colonial Service officers British World War II prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by Italy Aden Protectorate people British Army personnel of World War II Northern Rhodesia Regiment officers