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The Suez debacle began on 31st October
1956.
In the House of Commons on 1st November, William Yates, a Conservative Party
MP, interrupted on a point of order and said,
"I have come to the conclusion that
Her Majesty's Government has been involved in an international conspiracy".
Later that day representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union at
the United Nations joined forces and demanded
a cease-fire. The British and French vetoed a cease-fire in the Security Council
but the General Assembly passed it by a vote of 64-5 vote.
Faced by a united international community, the governments of Britain, France
and Israel agreed to withdraw.
They were then replaced by UN troops who policed the Egyptian frontier
At some point(when?)1LF orders were changed as the
Suez Crisis had ended.
The Bn were then posted (what exact date and from where?) to Cyprus.
Anyone KNOWING (if you are vague I would prefer not to record it)the answers
to any of the dates/places/times/numbers involved
This photos found on another website by Peter Swensson he was wondering if anyone knew the Lancashire Fusiliers This is a photo of Tommy Rocky Rochford brother of Jack Rochford |
Geoff, we returned from Cyprus a few days
ago. We hadn't been back there since about 2007 and things have totally
changed. We spent some days at Coral Bay, which used to be our rest
camp and a place where we would go to swim if we weren't doing some
task. Coral Bay as the vets from Polemi Camp know is just north of Paphos.
From being a totally deserted place back in 1957 is now full of hotels
and up-market housing. I wish that I had bought a plot of land there
back in -57 as it would have been worth a fortune today. I can still
recommend it for a holiday. One day I drove up to Polis on the north-west
coast to see the old place again. We were stationed just up the road
from there at Limni, that was from the autumn of 1957 until Febuary
of 1958. I often visited the town after midnight when I was on duty.
The last time I was there I didn't need a map to get around but now
I did as the expansion of the area is, like other places extensive,
and I needed a navigator. We had also discussed the detention centre
called by the Greeks - The Polemi Concentration Camp, where the Greek
suspects were subject to ill treatment. It is built adjoining the Polemi
Camp and is not very big. It was built after the LFs left the area and
I believe that it was run by the Argylles who took over after us. The
Jocks treated their prisoners with extreme harshness. Between the so
called Concentration Camp and Polemi Camp is a large winery. This is
partly built on the area where our sh.. house was - which if the hole
is connected with a pump can give the wine a picant taste. Stroumpi
is very much bigger than we remember it. We stopped to drink coffee
there. The roads are excellent, thanks to EU contributions. I didn't
get to Nicosia to visit Kermia, which may be in the Turkish zone (anyone
know?). Limassol is overrun by Russians and so is the Island which obviously
gets a lot of dirty money. Sent in by Malcolm C. McDonald |
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LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
Killed in Action in Cyprus
Bickerstaff
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The Funeral
of 23374640 Fus Brian Walters killed in
a Traffic accident
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Have been reading through the LF website with great interest, what an excellent resource and fitting 'home' you have created for Fusiliers past and present. I take my at off to you all. Anyway, the point in me writing is to say that I was researching a Lancashire Fusilier medal (Cyprus) which is new to my collection. I haven't found him, but enjoyed looking! Perhaps you would like his details to add to your nominal roll: 23428616 Fusilier W. Booth, Lancashire Fusiliers. Given his Regimental number, I believe he would have enlisted around the last quarter of 1957. Owen Dobson |
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Alec Mifsud has
presented a Minden day 1959 copy of the Gallipoli Gazette to Joe for
research.
The mystery is solved by seeing in the write up that the 1st Bn provided most(not all) of the Queens Birthday Parade held at "The Moat" of the walled City of Nicosia Cyprus. The Bn provided one guard(HQ Coy). On the Bicenenary of Minden the Bn trooped the Colour at the English School Nicosia(probably on the sports field ) . The Governer Sir Hugh Foot took the salute on both parades. End of Mystery. |
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LFs away from Bn at
Nicosia HQ 50 Ind Bde Cyprus 1958. Fusilier Bunny Warren, on
fattening up exercises
sent in by Bob Scott I have in the past tried to find the guys, all to no avail. Regards Bob. |
CYPRUS 1958
It was June 1958 when I took over Command
of B Coy 1LF stationed at Kirmia Camp just outside Nicosia. Joe Kelly,
the Lancashire full back was 2 i/c, Paddy Haines a regular subalterns
and two N.S. subalterns, one of them destined for greater things as
2/Lt Konrad Schiemann later became famous as Sir Konrad Schiemann
Privy Councillor in 1995. Gerry Lyons was the CSM and Les Lamb one
of the Pl Sgts. Maurice Taylor
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This set of photo came to us by
Capt John Campbell they where sent to him by One day we came across a large snake, and
one of the lads threw stones at it and killed it chopped it's head
off then skinned it he put the skin in salt and later made a belt.
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