50th ANNIVERSARY OF END OF CYPRUS EMERGENCY

Motion Text

That this House commemorates the ending of the four-year Cyprus Emergency, 1955 to 1959, during which 371 members of HM Armed Forces, many of them National Service conscripts, lost their lives, of whom 274 were in the Army, 28 in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, and 69 in the Royal Air Force; and pays tribute to those who campaigned for a permanent memorial, unveiled on 8 November 2009 in the Old British Cemetery in Kyrenia, to those who served and died in Cyprus.