OSPA - Overseas Service Pensioners' Association

List of Overseas Territories

Name of Territory	Date of Independence	Present name if different

Aden	30 November 1967	Yemen (part)
Bahamas	10 July 1973
Barbados	30 November 1966
Basutoland	4 October 1966	Lesotho
Bechuanaland	30 September 1966	Botswana
Bermuda	*
British Guiana	26 May 1966	Guyana
British Honduras	21 September 1981	Belize
Brunei	1 January 1984	Negara Brunei Darussalam
Cameroons:
Northern Cameroons	1 June 1961	Nigeria (part)
Southern Cameroons	1 October 1961	Republic of Cameroon (part)
Cayman Islands	*
Central African Federation (of Rhodesia and Nyasaland)	December 1963 (dissolved)
Ceylon	4 February 1948	Sri Lanka
Cyprus	16 August 1960
East Africa High Commission (and Departments)	n.a
East African Railways and Harbours	n.a.
Falkland Islands	*
Fiji	10 October 1970
Gambia	18 February 1965	The Gambia
Gibraltar	*
Gold Coast	6 March 1957	Ghana
Hong Kong	1 July 1997 (to China)
Jamaica	6 August 1962
Kenya	12 December 1963
Leeward Islands:
Anguilla	*
Antigua	1 November 1981	Antigua and Barbuda
British Virgin Islands	*
Montserrat	*
St Kitts-Nevis	19 September 1983	St Christopher and Nevis
Malaya	31 August 1957	Malaysia (part)
Malta	21 September 1964
Mauritius	12 March 1968
Nigeria	1 October 1960
North Borneo	16 September 1963	Sabah, Malaysia
Northern Rhodesia	24 October 1964	Zambia
Nyasaland	6 July 1964	Malawi
Palestine	14 May 1948	Israel/Jordan
St Helena with Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	*
Sarawak	16 September 1963	Malaysia (part)
Seychelles	29 June 1976
Sierra Leone	27 April 1961
Singapore	16 September 1963 9 August 1965	Malaysia (part) Independent State
Somaliland Protectorate	26 June 1960 1 July 1960	Independence Somalia (part)
Southern Rhodesia #	18 April 1980	Zimbabwe
Sudan	1956 9 July 2011	South Sudan
Swaziland	6 September 1968
Tanganyika	9 December 1961	Tanzania (part)
Trinidad and Tobago	31 August 1962
Turks and Caicos Islands	*
Uganda	9 October 1962
West Indies Federation	1962 (dissolved)
Western Pacific Territories:
British Solomon Islands	7 July 1978	Solomon Islands
Gilbert & Ellice Islands	12 July 1979	Kiribati/Tuvalu
New Hebrides	3 July 1980	Vanuatu
Pitcairn #	*
Tonga	4 June 1970
Windward Islands:
Dominica	3 November 1978
Grenada	7 February 1974
St Lucia	22 February 1979
St Vincent	27 October 1979	St Vincent & the Grenadines
Zanzibar	10 December 1963	Tanzania (part)
* now remaining as UK Overseas Territories
# not administered by Colonial Service/HMOCS

Note: OSPA does not represent people whose service was only in Burma, India, Pakistan, or the Gulf States (which were not the responsibility of the Colonial Office).