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The Cyprus Regiment was a military unit of the British Army. Created by the British Government during World War II , it was made up of volunteers from the Greek Cypriot , Turkish Cypriot , Armenian, Maronite and Latin inhabitants of Cyprus , but also included other Commonwealth nationalities.
A New History of Cyprus: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. East-West Publications. Simmons, Mark (2015). The British and Cyprus: An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878–1974. The History Press. Smith, Colin (2009). England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy, 1940–1942. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Yiangou, Anastasia (2010).
British Forces Cyprus (BFC) is the name given to the British Armed Forces stationed in the UK Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia on the island of Cyprus and at a number of related 'retained sites' in the Republic of Cyprus.
Greek sources claim that during the battle British units from the north and ones from the south, unable to see in the fog and in the belief that they were surrounded by EOKA fighters, engaged each other in an eight-hour firefight involving airstrikes, artillery bombardments, and heavy weapons. This firefight caused 250 casualties, including 127 ...
Royal Air Force Nicosia or more simply RAF Nicosia is a former Royal Air Force station on the island of Cyprus, built in the 1930s. The station served as Headquarters Royal Air Force Cyprus from 8 June to 29 July 1941. The original principal airport for Cyprus, Nicosia International Airport, was built within the site of the RAF station. Both ...
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 1955.
About 100,000 British and Commonwealth troops became prisoners of war during the Battle of Malaya. [166] Winston Churchill called the fall of Singapore the "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British history. [167] The Japanese conquest of Burma started in January. It was soon apparent that the British and Indian troops in the Burma ...
British Post World War II Military Campaigns - Cyprus: Fighting the EOKA (2014) Joseph, Joseph S. Cyprus: Ethnic Conflict and International Politics: From Independence to the Threshold of the European Union (St. Martin's, 1997). Kaliber, Alper. "Turkey’s Cyprus policy: A case of contextual Europeanisation."