ian16th
Yes, February was when it really kicked off in Limassol.
My wife gave birth to our second daughter on the 11th and when I went to see her it was in a convoy of cars under armed escort. I recall seeing the Paras parked up in the plantation on the outskirts of town.
A sgt on my sqdn lived in a flat overlooking Big Arifs. One Sunday morning he and his family were ordered out of the flat by heavily armed Greeks. He drove, with his family, to the Base and presented himself to the evacuation centre, which had been set up in the Education block. The evacuation officer remonstrated with him, saying the order to evacuate had not yet been given. He replied, the Greeks had given him the order, which he thought best to obey!