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Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Arnold Rose was a retired military surgeon who had served in the Second World War. He

became Chief Medical Officer and senior surgeon for the Cyprus Mines Corporation, and was made an Officer of the
Order of the British Empire on 7 January 1967.

Major Francis Hodgkinson, 4 Commando Major Bill Lewis, Royal Welch Fusiliers17

17 The Royal Welch Fusiliers were serving in Cyprus when they were summoned from their summer quarters in Troodos

on the evening of Wednesday 21 October 1931 to support the civilian administration in Nicosia immediately following the
disturbances which culminated in the deliberate destruction of Government House. This event sent shock waves throughout
the British Empire, with its memories of the two great horror stories of imperial Britain – the atrocities against British civilians

in the Indian and Boxer rebellions. At the time, the British garrison in Cyprus was only a token presence, consisting of just
three officers and 123 men. (Information obtained from Chapter 8, No more mixed tea parties 1926 – 1938, in Morgan, Tabitha
(2010), op cit.) Major Bill Lewis, who was born on 16 April 1916, would have been too young to be serving with The Royal
Welch Fusiliers in 1931, though it is possible that this episode was a factor in his considerations when he decided to enrol in

this regiment. He is buried next to the Second World War grave of Captain Jasper Peter Young.

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