Richard Cyril Rescorla was a British-American soldier, police officer, educator and private security specialist. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned
Rick Rescorla
The image of Rescorla in Vietnam would be used on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once... And Young.
Cenotaph to Rick Rescorla in Hayle, Cornwall
Rescorla's name is located on Panel S-46 of the National September 11 Memorial's South Pool.
The Cyprus Emergency was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959.
Rick Rescorla
…11, 2001) was a British-American soldier, police officer, educator and private security specialist. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of colonel in the Army before entering the private…
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