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. 9 September 1958. p. 2. Retrieved 8 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
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