CYPRUS 1958

[Richard Joyce (105)]

DAMAGE DONE BY AN EOKA IED,.

[Don the Mod]

Re: CYPRUS 1958

Is that an Austin Richard?

[Dave Burgess]

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Looks very similar to regular happenings on the Dhala road that lead up country from Aden. Soo-ap dodging twats were allus laying mines along the route.

[standinthedoor]

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Could have been the vehicle Tam Simpson (1 Para, RIP recently) was caught up in, but there were many

[Richard Joyce (105)]

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No Bedford ,Don .

[Don the Mod]

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No Bedford ,Don .

Looks a bit different to the RL's...then again that could've been the IED.

[trubrit2411]

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Bedford 3 Tonner ? eh Para Drummer ?

[Richard Joyce (105)]

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Yes I am sure that's a Bedford , I think Des (Ginger) Boden R.I.P. was involved that. his son served in I PARA and is at Blackpool, regularly.

[standinthedoor]

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Yes I am sure that's a Bedford , I think Des (Ginger) Boden R.I.P. was involved that. his son served in I PARA and is at Blackpool, regularly.

Des was a very good mate, got in, and out of one or two scrapes together. if it was the ambush Des was involved in he was not badly hurt. EOKA learned something about the Para mentality in one of those ambushes, not sure if it was Tams or not, but apparently if an ambush happened (IED or gunfire) most units in Cyprus dove for cover as their first IA. EOKA blew a truck of 1 Para off the road and three really pissed off blokes emerged and went tearing up the hills trying to locate the t**ts, firing at everything and anything, did'nt catch the c**ts but scared the living shit out of them. EOKA admitted in a book much later that they tried to avoid contact with Para units- 'dangerous'!

[Gil]

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There were two TL's full of lads playing football crashed together.....lot of the lads were killed at the same time I remember from the gravewatch list.

[Gil]

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Might be wrong here, but wasnt that picture one of the two TL's carrying the two football teams 2 PARA where 14 lads were killed in an RTA where they struck each other??
There were so many I know but it looks familiar with the recovery LAD in front

Pte Francis R Wood
Pte Philip Darbyshire
Pte Aubrey SJ Woodward
L/Cpl Derek Inwood
L/Cpl Derek Preston
Pte Edgar W Alexander
Pte George W Leatherland
L/Cpl Norman R Davies
Pte Norman Stanford
Pte Robert Matthews
Pte Walter D Odey
Pte Alfred Milton
Pte Francis Thomas Millard
Pte Joseph Duncan

Sad.............. but all the lads are now buried in Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Palestine.



RIP lads

[Dave Burgess]

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R.I.P.

[Richard Joyce (105)]

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They took us to some place and showed us what these IEDS that they put in the culverts looked like , very primitive , a large biscuit tin wired up to a long run of wire with a domestic light switch screwed to a piece of board .

[trubrit2411]

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Same place... Khayat


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[trubrit2411]

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Start clicking on a few of these and you begin to realise just how many blokes, in how many far flung places, This nation has lost

http://www.britishwargraves.co.uk/page21.htm