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    Fify years ago, terrorists on Cyprus killed nearly 400 British soldiers. Now, with the help of Telegraph readers, they are at last to get a fitting memorial, reports Gordon Rayner.

    Just spotted this in facepuke...
    "We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey"
    Radio transmission, siege of Jadotville DR Congo. September 1961.
    Illegitimi non carborundum

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    Thanks Turkey, i spent 6 years in Cyprus and we only ever heard rumours of this so something official would be brilliant and it should happen - rightly so.
    RGJ

    ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

    The Rifles

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    • #3
      British Reservists in Cyprus

      'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
      'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
      Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
      He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
      http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Flamingo View Post
        British Reservists in Cyprus

        I believe 2 R IRISH are on the next rotation for that; they're doing driving cadres etc for it at present.
        'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins

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