Battle of Liopetri

Liopetri Incident
Part of Cyprus Emergency
Date1-2 September 1958
LocationLiopetri, Cyprus
Result successful British raid
Belligerents
 United Kingdom
Royal Ulster Rifles		 EOKA
Casualties and losses
4 EOKA members killed

The Battle of Liopetri took place on 1-2 September 1958 as part of the Cyprus Emergency. British security forces attacked an EOKA team and killed its four members after a five-hour battle.

The four gunmen opened fire on elements of the 1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles. The British then sealed off the village, imposed a curfew and begin looking for the men. They were located in a barn and a battle ensued in which all four EOKA gunmen were killed.

Cpl Shaughnessey was awarded a Military Medal for his actions. The barn at Liopetri is now a Greek Cypriot national monument, the Akhyronas Barn Museum, and includes a bronze statue of the four EOKA men who died.[1][2]

The battle resulted in Colonel Georgios Grivas calling an end to a truce that had been in effect since August.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Battle description at Royal Irish
  2. ↑ Tourism page for Liopetri
  3. ↑ "EOKA Calls Off Cyprus Truce.". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). ACT: National Library of Australia. 9 September 1958. p. 2. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

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