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Secretaries Office. From 1956 to 1958, he was employed as Commissioner of Labour. He is commemorated
by a plaque on the south wall of the nave of St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Nicosia. His house, which is no

longer there, was subsequently used as the residence of British Commanders-in-Chief.

Memorial to Richard St J O Wayne in St Paul’s Cathedral, Nicosia

Details about Richard St J. O. Wayne on group photo at St Columba’s Church, Nicosia 2

Within the whole cemetery lie 409 Royal Navy, Army and RAF personnel together with 167 dependants

and service employed civilians. In addition, there are five Germans from a bomber crew that crashed
on the island during the Second World War, and another German who died as a prisoner of war (their

2 Unfortunately this potted biography of Richard Wayne at St Columba’s is not fully reliable. He held a number of different
roles in his 20 years on the island, including Commissioner of Limassol from 1939 to 1941, when he was appointed Commis-

sioner of Labour. Percy Arnold’s book, which is cited as the source for Wayne being Commissioner of Labour in 1958, was
published in 1956! (comment supplied by Tim Reardon, historian)

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