The Cyprus Emergency was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959.
A street riot in Nicosia during the Battle at Nicosia Hospital in 1956
EOKA home-made mortar, circa 1955
Soldiers of 1st Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), with an Mk I Ferret Scout Car in the Troodos mountains, 1957
British Cyprus was the island of Cyprus under the dominion of the British Empire, administered sequentially from 1878 to 1914 as a British protectorate, from 1914 to 1925 as an annexed military occupa
Cyprus Emergency
…The Cyprus Emergency was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot guerrilla organisation fighting for unification…
Cyprus Airways pilot wing badge (1947–1960)
Greek Orthodox priests blessing the Union Jack as it is raised in Nicosia, 1878