Situation Now In Cyprus (1956)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown.
Situation now in Cyprus - Famagust and Bohgaz village.
Various shots of British servicemen's wives with children, shopping at the NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) centre. M/S of children sitting on step eating ice-lollies. C/U of NAAFI shop sign. The women were not allowed to buy food from the markets and had to do all their shopping in the NAAFI. Includes brief shot inside NAAFI with staff at counter.
General view of Lieutenant Colonel's house at Bohgaz village near Famagusta, showing British servicemen outside on guard after the Lieutenant Colonel was shot there.
M/S of lorry arriving at the port, pan to the top of lorry showing baskets of potatoes which are to be checked by customs. Various shots of Famagusta Harbour, showing goods being unloaded from lorries onto the ship. M/S of Cypriot on donkey, selling newspapers to locals.
General view of church (Archbishopric) and other Greek premises with flag at half mast for the death of two terrorists. General view of church with bells ringing. Various shots of people in markets, buying and selling food and of Cypriot men loading and unloading lorries in market. Two girls lift up shutter of shop doorway and go inside.
Various shots of shops and activity back to normal after three day strike that stopped all car movements and closed shops while authorities searched for terrorists. Shop shutters being opened, displays outside shop fronts. Street scenes. Man selling fabric near open entrance of shop. Armed troops walking about streets.
FILM ID:2548.19
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[@donlunn792]

Not sure where my first post went to about the sten gun . But anyway, seeing the guy with the Sten Gun! He would have been lucky to hit a barn door 60 paces away. It was an awful Gun. I have spoken to many ex servicemen who have used this Gun. And everyone of them said it was almost useless. Apparently you had to aim left,and let the gun fire in a diagonal to the right. You could not aim it. But still a great vid of the time when we Brits thought we ruled the world. (Actually We Didn’t think that. That is garbage) Until the Yanks S@#£ on us and the French In the Suez crisis. Read the history!! This country’s Government (Great Britain) thinks that we have a special relationship with America. We don’t!!! All we have is Prime Ministers who suck up to America! Most people in Great Britain couldn’t give a flying F@#£ about America. Two world wars you were late into the major conflict. And then you have the ordacity to think you saved us. The Battle of Britain saved you and the rest of this world.

[@angloaust1575]

Airborne to suez by sandy cavanagh describes the fight Against eoka in 1956 Just before the suez invasion and its aftermath when returning French troops sold their Souvenir captured russian Weapons to terrorists!

[@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt]

The EOKA fighters were not terrorists . They were the indigenous people of Cyprus, fighting for Freedom against the British Colonialism.