Operation Lucky Alphonse

Operation Lucky Alphonse
Date 7 June 1956 - 23 June 1956 Location Troodos Mountains, Cyprus Result 17 EOKA members were captured, and the EOKA group was broken and no longer posed a threat.
Commanders and leaders
Brigadier Geoffrey Baker	Colonel Georgios Grivas
Strength
40,000	300
Casualties and losses
25 (none directly by EOKA)	17 captured

Operation Lucky Alphonse was a British Armed Forces operation that occurred during the EOKA insurgency in Cyprus. The British Army lost 25 men, mostly as a result of road accidents (7) and a forest fire that killed 13 men of the Gordon Highlanders, 5 Norfolks and two from the Parachute Regiment.

Units

• Units already stationed in the Troodos Area
  • The Parachute Regiment
  • The Royal Marines
  • The Gordon Highlanders
• Supporting Units
  • The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  • The South Staffordshire Regiment
  • The Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • The Royal Horse Guards
  • The RAF Regiment
  • HMS Diamond
  • C Company of the 1st Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry

References

• David Carter, The Tragedy of Lucky Alphonse (The Paphos Fire), Britain's Small Wars, 2005

See also

• Modern history of Cyprus