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This title has been produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the commencement of that
troubled period known as the Cyprus Emergency
As the sovereign power, Britain's response was to conduct an anti-terrorist operation. This involved troops from all the British armed services - Army, Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force - as well as the British Police Force. These operations in Cyprus were especially dependent upon young national servicemen.
Over the five-year Emergency many regiments, squadrons, ships and other units were deployed and are often mentioned in the text. The work is illustrated by a number of photographs, some previously unpublished and provided by those who served in Cyprus at the time. This volume will be of great interest to those who were on the island during this period, as well as to historians and military collectors.
Appendices include:
Honours and Awards, including Mentions-in-Despatches (about 900 names)
Roll of Honour (about 400 names)
Obituaries
Unit Deployments
This is the story of a 19 year old who joined the FANY then trained as a radar mechanic
during the
There is a lively description of the gun sites, the people working on them and in the Officers' Mess, of daily work practices, air raids and history of the fast development of army radar. There are insights into difficulties of planning and execution. Also there is praise for the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in workshops, without whom no guns could have been fired in our defence. In histories of AA Command, their work goes for the most part unmentioned.
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