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RAF Episkopi, EOKA set fire to C-in-C’s new home in 1956
written by John Fletcher
 September 10th 1956 - my 20th birthday. I was the Corporal guard commander at the MEAF C-in-C’s new home being built near Episkopi.
An ’EOKA’ explosive device had been placed in the roof-space of the adjacent building [Army C-in-C’s new home]. I used the walkie-talkie to tell the Army guard commander that we could see smoke from the roof of ’his’ house - as the ’pencil-type’ device had not been heard by him or his men. I took two photographs soon after the explosion but have never published them before now. The following day UK newspapers had front page headlines about the incident but no photographs appeared. All the workers on the RAF property were then rounded up for interrogation. |
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