Cyprus Emergency 1955 - 1959 Roll of Honour

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To mark the 50th anniversary of the ending of the Cyprus Emergency, The British Memorial is to be erected in Cyprus in the old British cemetery at Kyrenia, to be unveiled on Remembrance Day 2009. On it will be inscribed the names of the 371 British servicemen ? 28 members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, 274 British Army, and 69 Royal Air Force ? who died there on active service 1955-1959.
LEST WE FORGET

Here is a link to an excellent article in the Daily Telegraph
dated 20th April 2009:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/5183952/The-forgotten-soldiers-buried-in-no-mans-land.html

Here is the Roll of Honour for the Royal Marines:
http://www.britishcyprusmemorial.org/index.php/roll/listUnit/32