THE BRITISH ARMY IN CYPRUS: THE 1950S - Imperial War …
National servicemen of 1st Battalion, The Royal Ulster Rifles search a bus at a road block during the EOKA Emergency in Cyrpus. We have over 1.7 million object records online, and we are adding to this all the time. Our records are never finished.
Cyprus Emergency - Wikipedia
The Cyprus Emergency [note 1] was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. [8] The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece (Enosis) in
Cyprus - National Army Museum
In the early 1950s, a revolt in favour of union with Greece began in British-controlled Cyprus. British troops remain on the island to this day as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force.
News - Cyprus Emergency 1955-1959 Memorial Service - 21 …
Jul 18, 2022 · Between 1955 and 1959 a volunteer force of around 900 British police officers were deployed to Cyprus, in addition to thousands of British military personnel, to support the Cyprus Colonial Police and military to deal with The Cyprus Emergency, also known as the Greek Cypriot War of Independence.
British Army memories in Cyprus 1958-1959 - CyprusScene.com
Apr 21, 2013 · One such person was Derek Chilvers, who came back to Cyprus in 2012 for the first time in 53 years since his army days when he served here as a Rifleman with the Suffolk Regiment in 1958/59.
Cyprus Emergency - British Empire
National Servicemen in Cyprus At the beginning of 1955 the little island of Cyprus slumbered happily beneath the Mediterranean sunshine. It had been governed by Britain since 1878, although it remained nominally the property of Turkey who had owned it by force of conquest for several centuries.
BBC News - Can Cyprus overcome its bloody history?
Nov 23, 2009 · In the late 1950s the British Empire was trying to cling on to the island, which remained a strategic location, especially around the time of the Suez crisis. Greek Cypriot fighters belonging to...
Cyprus Remembered – Geoffrey Simpson ex 65th Coy RASC
Nov 20, 2018 · We have received a comment from a reader who has enjoyed reading one of our oldest articles about British national servicemen in Cyprus in the late 1950’s and he has also shared some of his own memories of his time in Cyprus, when he was stationed in Famagusta from 1956 to 1958.
National Service 60 years ago: (2) Cyprus – Henry Brooke
Feb 2, 2017 · It took ten hours to fly the 1,200 miles from Tripoli to Nicosia, with stops at Benghazi and the RAF base at El Adem on the way. Libya had been relatively peaceful. In Cyprus there was the EOKA-inspired emergency.
Cyprus 1955-1959, 23 Dec 1955-4 Dec 1956 ... - The National …
Nov 16, 2024 · WO 373 - War Office and Ministry of Defence: Military Secretary's Department: Recommendations for Honours and Awards for Gallant and Distinguished Service... Subseries within WO 373 - COMBATANT...