EOKA Members List : C

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CHARALAMBOUS, Andreas (He was captured in early October by Ptes O'DONNELL and PEARCE of 2 Para during Operation Sparrowhawk. They came across him and several terrorists hiding in a barn in the Kyrenia Mountains. The Security Forces believed all had participated in the ambush below St Hilarion Castle on 28.09.56 in which Mary HOLTON of the WVS lost her life as well as her military escort, Pte Colin READ of 1 Wilts. He and his cohorts received life sentences to be served at Dartmoor Prison in Devon, UK.)

CHARALAMBOUS, Aristides. (He was born in Pedhoulas in 1936 and died on 11.03.56, when the grenade he intended to throw at a British patrol blew up in his hands.)

CHARALAMBOUS, Demitrios (Born in Limnitis in 1925, he was killed on 13.10.58 in an ambush by the security forces as he was transporting EOKA members to Kokkinoyia Limniatou village.)

CHARALAMBOUS, Dinos (A Larnaca student, the 20-year-old led the attack on Kyrenia/Girne Police Station on 08.09.56. For EOKA, this was a great propaganda success as the 12-man group captured the station, which was located just below the Castle that housed British troops. After collecting a stock of weapons, the terrorists withdrew without loss. He was never caught and survived the conflict.)

CHARALAMBOUS, Euripides (The 20-year-old carpenter pleaded Guilty in a Nicosia Court on 30 June 1955 to a charge of 'preparing to procure the alteration of the Cyprus Government by armed force'. He was found with a bomb outside a Nicosia hotel where Governor Sir Robert ARMITAGE was dining. An explosion outside the hotel took place minutes after his arrest. Prosecuting for the Crown, Rauf DENKTAS said Charalambous belonged to the "class of misguided persons in Cyprus who are being put up by the leaders of the so-called liberation struggle and are becoming the tools of the leaders' treacherous activities." Charalambous was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment.)

CHARALAMBOUS, Giorgos (Born in 1938 in Kyperounta, Lemesos district, one of four children of Charalambos Themistokleous and Melani Charalambous. He worked as a builder and joined EOKA when he was barely 18 years-old struggle for Enosis with Greece broke out in 1955. On 4 March 1956, he joined others in bomb attacks against British soldiers in Limassol. One bomb exploded in his hand and killed him.)

CHARALAMBOUS, Giorgios. (He was killed on 04.11.55 during an attack on an army vehicle in Limassol.)

CHARTAS, Andreas. (Born in 1934, he worked as a builder. He was arrested in possession of weapons with Evanghelos EVANGHELAKIS on 01.02.57. He was the Nicosia group commander who worked closely with Nicos SAMPSON. Chartas was sentenced to life imprisonment. On 10.11.58, DP 8624 was transferred to a UK prison, but was released and returned to Cyprus on 14.03.59 as part of the peace settlement agreements. to be served in the UK)

CHARTAS, Christos (He was shot dead on 16.03.56 by 45 RM Commando. Born in 1931, he worked as a clerk before joining EOKA. He later headed the Spilia mountain group. His family lived in nearby Polyystipos. He was shot dead on 16.03.56 during a raid on a convoy of military vehicles near Khandria. Members of 45 Commando loaded his body on a truck and drove it to various nearby villages before it was identified.)

CHOIROPOULIS, Paraskevas. (From Paleometocho village, aged 19, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his complicity in the murder of Cpl Patrick HALE at RAF Nicosia on 16.05.56. He was given the number DP 8504. As part of the peace settlement agreements, he was released on 09.03.59.)

CHRISTODOULOU, Costas. (He worked at the Estia Bookshop in Larnaca and often kept pistols after they had been used by EOKA in random shootings in the town.)

CHRISTOU, Demetrakis (Born 1938 in Pano Amiandos, he was found guilty of fire arms offenses and sentenced to death on 31.08.57)

CHRISTOU, Kyriacos (Aged about 40, he came originally from Limassol and was last spotted in Kissonerga.).

CHRISTDOULIDES, Charalambous (Born in 1936, he was a student-printer. He was arrested and accused of murdering Sgt Edward SMITH, RE, on 03.11.56. When he appeared in Court, the prosecution said the confession by the accused was obtained under duress and Christdoulides was released, but immediately re-arrested and charged with aiding and abetting Eoka youths to murder military personnel in Limassol.)

CHRISTODOULIDES, Costas (Born 1920 in Ay. Georghios-tou-Sparthicou, he led the Famagusta (Gazimagosa) murder team that killed Mrs Catherine CUTLIFFE on 03.10.58. See also Kikis CONSTANTINOU.)

CHRISTODOULIDES, Elli. Mrs (Born 1930 in Polemedhia, she was the Leader's 'hostess' on frequent occasions between September 1956 and February 1959. 'On the whole, I found women more trustworthy and less talkative than men,' said GRIVAS. He used Mrs Eli Christodoulides, Mrs Maroulla PANAYIDES and Miss Elizabeth NICOLAOU, a 22-year-old Sunday school teacher, to collect and distribute his correspondence for two and a half years.)

CHRISTDOULIDES, Georgoulla. (Born Paphos 1928, she provided terrorist gangs with food supplies. The IS forces discovered her activities and she was interned.)

CHRISTODOULIDES, Iacovos. (Born in Arodes village in 1939, he was killed by the security forces as he attempted to escape from a cordon-and-search operation at Kathika on 15.09.58)

CHRISTODOULIDES, Marios

(Christodoulides - left - and his wife provided 'safe' accommodation to GRIVAS in their Limassol home from September 1956 until the end of the conflict)
Married with 9-month-old baby daughter, Christodoulides was an employee of the Akrotiri branch of the Ottoman Bank! The house, 100 yards from the main Limassol bypass, had an underground hide, stretching from beneath the kitchen into the garden, above which there was a poultry run. The location of the new GRIVAS hiding place was known only to Maroulla and Dafnis PANAYIDES, who brought his correspondence; Demos HJIMILTIS, EOKA's Limassol town commander and his fiancée Nina DROUSHIOTOU, who acted as a special courier; and to Manolis SAVVIDES and Andreas PAPADOPOULOS, the men who had built the hide.)

CHRISTODOULOU, Agamemnon. (Born 1933, he was a farmer who became a member of a hit and run gang. He was caught and interned.)

CHRISTODOULOU, Demetrakis. Code-name: Demetrakis. (He was an Eoka gang leader in the Troodos Mountains. After attempting to escape, he was killed on 17.02.57 by 40 RM Commando, during an operation in the Potamitissas Pelendriou area.

His body had to be roped to a makeshift wooden stretcher so that it could be carried to a nearby village for onward transportation by ambulance. He was on the government's Wanted List.)

CHRISTODOULOU, Georghios. (He was born in 1934 in Kalogrea/Bahceli Kyrenia/Girne.)

CHRISTODOULOU, Maroulla. With husband Costas, she ran the Estia bookshop in Zenonos Kitieos Street, Larnaca. The shop was used regularly as a place to exchange and pass messages between Eoka groups.

CHRISTODOULOU, Neophytos (Born 1936)

CHRISTODOULOU, Papamiltiades. (Under orders from Archbishop Makarios, he began to recruit EOKA fighters in 1954 for operations in the Famagusta (Gazimagosa) district. He called them the Christian Youth Brotherhood - EHAN. One of his recruits was Andreas DEMETRIOU, caught and hanged by the British.)

CHRISTODOULOU, Sofronis. (An Eoka member, he was killed by VOLKAN, the Turkish Cypriot counter-terrorist organization, on 10.06.56 in Kalochiorio/Kalkanli near Larnaca.)

CHRISTOFI, Bassos (Members of 1 R Leicesters, after a gun battle near Lysi on 10.02.57, captured him and in five others. The seventh terrorist, Paraulos KOKKINOS, was shot dead. The Leicester patrol was led by Cpl T W JAMES.)

CHRISTOFI, Evangelis (He belonged to the Eoka gang that operated in the Lysos 'triangle' of the Paphos district, notorious as an area for ambushes. Security forces caught up with him and he was interned.)

CHRISTOFI, Fotis (Born 1924, he was from Kalogrea village. He became deputy commander of EOKA operations in the Kyrenia (Besparmak) Mountains, with £5,000 on his head. After a short gunfight, he was captured with several other terrorists on 05.10.56, by 2 Para during Operation Sparrowhawk. Christofi participated in the ambush below St Hilarion Castle on 28.09.56 in which Mary HOLTON of the WVS lost her life as well as her military escort Pte Colin READ of 1 Wilts. Read, a National Serviceman, was a professional football player with Bristol City. The team's manager said: 'Colin was one of the most promising young forwards we had on our books.' Christofi and his cohorts received life sentences to be served at Dartmoor Prison in Devon, UK. His number was DP 8581. On 14.03.59, he returned to Cyprus a free man as part of the peace settlement agreements signed in London.)

CHRISTOFI, Napoleon (Born 1935, Nata, Paphos)

CHRISTOFORIDOU, Eleni Mrs (Born in Tymbou/Ercan, she was an EOKA courier in Nicosia. She and Vereniki LEONNIDOU hid Nicos SAMPSON's pistols under their skirts after he had used them in the firefight at Nicosia General Hospital on 31.08.56, during which Polycarpos GEORGHADJIS escaped. Later she was arrested on convicted on 28.01.57. She was interned as Sp Det 13.)

CHRISTOFOROS, Yannis He was one of a group of five Greek Cypriots who in November 1973 claimed in Athens that they had been sadistically beaten and tortured by Archbishop MAKARIOS's security forces on the island. Little is known about this ex-terrorist's actions against the British in the 1950s, but said: 'When I showed them photographs of my tortures by the British, they beat me in the same places.' Another said that the soles of his feet had been lacerated with steel rods. 'Whoever does not believe in and worship Makarios is purged,' he said.

* CHRISTOFOROU, Georgios. (Born in Emba village, near Paphos, he died 20.11.58, a victim of British torture, says EOKA.)

CHRISTOFOROU, Kyriacos (Born 1933, he operated in the Paphos area)

CHRISTOFOROU, Vassos. (The 17-year-old from Avgorou village was caught and charged with attempted murder. He was sentenced to hang on 05.04.57, but the sentence was later commuted. He was released 02.03.59 as part of an amnesty agreed by the peace settlement agreements.)

CHRISTOPHI, Andreas. Code-name: Lontas. (Born 1938 in Steni village, he was a member of the Lysos gang that operated in Paphos with considerable vigor against British troops.)

CHRISTOUDHIAS, Andreas. (He was born 1927 in Ay. Varvara. and lived in Nicosia. Aged 29, when he came to the attention of the police, was 5ft 6inches tall with a pale complexion, black hair and black eyes. Little known about his activities.)

CHRYSOCHOS, Ivoni(She was LEFTERIS,'s wife - see below - and smuggled ammunition from Athens.)

CHRYSOCHOS, Lefteris. (A Limassol Customs official, he was a key member of the Eoka arms smuggling operations between Greece and Cyprus. He was arrested on 01.12.56. Two weeks later, the government announced 'the biggest haul of the Emergency' - the arrest of 48 Eoka members in Limassol, almost the entire gang of smugglers, including receivers, drivers, carriers, storekeepers and two schoolteachers. Most of the incoming weapons had cost Eoka nothing, claims Andreas AZINAS in his memoirs: 'Guns and ammunition were taken from Greek military stores, with the connivance of senior army officers.')

* CHRYSOSTOMOU, Panayiotis. (He died on 03.10.58, a victim of British torture, says Eoka.)

CLERIDES, Glafcos (His code-name was Iperides. He became a President of the Republic of Cyprus (Greek). In 2004, he stood again in the presidential elections, but lost to Tassos PAPADOPOULOS, another member of the Eoka gang operating in Nicosia during the 55-59 conflict. During WW2, he served in the RAF as a 'tail end Charlie' or rear gunner. Shot down over Germany and captured, he escaped from PoW camps on three occasions. He was mentioned in despatches.

After studying law at King's College, London, he became a QC, following the example of his father, lawyer and eminent public official Yiannis Clerides.

During the Eoka conflict, he was the most in-demand defense attorney for terrorist suspects. He also represented Charles FOLEY of The Times of Cyprus. Many people believe he was involved planning the failed assassination of Justice Shaw, who later dismissed murder charges against Nicos SAMPSON. The prosecutor in these cases was often Rauf DENKTAS, later to declare the breakaway state of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Both had been childhood friends and their friendship withstood the political divisions that beset their island. In the run-up to independence, he was appointed to the 'Transitional Committee' by MAKARIOS to handle 'Justice' affairs.)

CONSTANTINIDES, Costas (Governor FOOT granted gunman Constantinides a last minute reprieve - literally - on 18.12.58, because the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Greece were about to discuss the future of Cyprus in a friendly atmosphere and London did not want that to change due to the planned executions in Nicosia of Constantinides and Yiannakis ATHANASIOU.)

CONSTANTINIDES, Demitrakis (Once a waiter in the Paphos Palace hotel, a well known bordello, he became the town's Chief of Police in post-independence Cyprus, at the age of 22. Because he was illiterate, he was little more than a figurehead and 'fixer' for his friends. He spent most of time on his farm, bought on the proceeds of his questionable activities. Later he was found to be illegally employing Syrian workers. He escaped criminal proceedings when the Bishop of Paphos pleaded his case. Although nicknamed 'tralala' or crazy, this Limmasol-born Eoka member became a group leader. He escaped from Trimithia Detention Center on 05.01.56. He became active in the Lysos area, but was recaptured in the Troodos Mountains by Royal Marines during Operation Lucky Alphonse on 12.06.56.)

CONSTANTINOU, Alekos.('The heroes' monument of Kakopetria is dedicated to all the inhabitants of the village who fought for their country during the national war of independence in 1955-59.' That is the inscription on the EOKA Monument in Kakopetria. The figures of Costantinou and PANAYIOTIS TOUMAZOU were added to the monument on 29.05.2005 by the 'Board of the Historical Memory for the EOKA fighters'.

An only child, Costantinou was born in Kakopetria on 6 October 1936. His parents were Costas and Elpiniki Costantinou. Abandoned by his father when still an infant, he was brought up by his mother in Famagusta, where attended the local gymnasium and the school of commerce. He studied English and became a fluent speaker. His language skills allowed him to get a job with the British Army, which did not know he was a member of the EOKA executive group in Famagusta.

Costantinou and his mother allowed their home to be used as a 'safe' house and storage place for EOKA weapons. Confident that the British trusted him completely, he frequently entertained off-duty soldiers at his home.

In April 1958, he organized the assassination of William DEAR, 61, a British Special Branch interrogator, outside a Varosha/Famagusta cinema. EOKA said it killed Dear because he had tortured Greek Cypriots suspected of terrorist acts. British troops arrived on the scene before Dear died and he told them the names of his two killers. The second was PANAYIOTIS GEORGIADIES.

Costantinou and Gerogiadis escaped to Kourdali, where they joined Andreas PATSALIDIS. Constantinou died later on 20 June 1958 in Patsalides' house with Costas ANAXAGORA, Panayiotis GEORGIADES and Alecos CONSTANTINOOU when the explosives they were handling blew up. Mystery surrounds what exactly happened, but a Black Ops officer claims his team intercepted the group's material and altered the timers of several fuzes. The terrorists' bodies were blasted into pieces, some of which landed in the surrounding fields.

EOKA today describes them as 'the four immortals'. Constantinou was buried in Famagusta now under Turkish Cypriot control and is no longer a place of pilgrimage.

CONSTANTINOU, Christos Nicolaou (He gave evidence in the Court Martials of Capt Robin LINZEE, 1 Gordons, and Capt Gerald O'DRISCOLL, I Corps, claiming they assaulted him during interrogation. Both officers were found guilty and cashiered. Many believed political considerations were behind the verdict and that their sentences were grossly unfair.)

CONSTANTINOU, Kikis. (British Forces in the Famagusta considered him as dangerous and 'evil' as Nicos SAMPSON, but unlike the latter, he managed to avoid capture. MI6 believed him to be the trainer of hit-and-run murder gangs in the port city and suspected him of being one of the two terrorists who murdered Mrs Catherine CUTLIFFE on 3 October 1958. The other was alleged to be Costas CHRISTODOULIDES. So far, however, no hard evidence has been produced linking either man to her death or the disappearance of UNFICYP's Major Ted MACEY and Driver Len PLATT in June 1964.

To beat sniffer dogs from discovering his arms' store, hidden in an orange grove, he wrapped weapons with rubber gloves and placed them in large glass jars that were then buried.

At the end of the 1955-59 Eoka conflict, he joined the Greek Army contingent based in Cyprus as an officer and continued to train Greek Cypriot militia irregulars for attacks against Turkish Cypriots in the post-December 1963 'civil war'.

With Antonis PAPADOPOULAS of Limassol, he is reputed to have established EOKA-B for George GRIVAS in 1971.

At the time of the Turkish Army's intervention/invasion of Cyprus in July/August 1974, Constantinou was the proprietor of a beachside hotel in Varosha/Maras, the heart of the Greek Cypriot tourist industry.

As Turkish Forces neared, he escaped by speedboat to the Greek-controlled area south of the city. A few months later, after UNFICYP and UK Forces had evacuated British holidaymakers at his hotel, they received bills from him for 'wines and extras'.

Later, Constantinou was arrested in connection with the kidnapping and sudden release in December 1977 of Achilleas KYPRIANOU, son of President Spyros KYPRIANOU. The President accused him of conspiring with Tassos PAPADOPOULOS - and the West German Secret Service and Mossad - to 'annihilate' him and impose 'an illegitimate solution to the Cyprus issue'. Again, no evidence was produced and the case collapsed.

In 2007, Constantinou owned and operated one of the largest hotels in Ayia Napa, which he had built soon after the Island's division.)

CONSTANTINOU, Minas (AFXENTIOU and Michael GEORGALLIS, with other gang members, came to Constantinou's Zoopiyi home to rest the night of 31.12.56. But British troops tracked them to the village just before midnight. In the ensuing fight, GEORGALLIS, 21, was killed and AFXENTIOU escaped. As a clock in the house chimed in the New Year, according to EOKA propaganda, GEORGALLIS's last words were 'Leader, I am dying. Long live Greece!')

CONSTANTINOU, Neophytos (He was one of two terrorists captured on 17.09.58 when their ambush of a Royal Artillery patrol on the Larnaca-Nicosia ended in failure. He and his compatriot Ioannis SOUPPISI became informers and took their captors to where Eoka stores were hidden.)

CONSTANTINOU, Pitsa. (Aged 18, she came from Nicosia and was a much admired by EOKA members for throwing grenades at British soldiers. She was caught carrying a bomb and convicted to seven years' imprisonment on 03.11.56 as DP 8566. As part of the peace settlements agreements, she was released on 02.03.59.)

COSTAS, Michael (Born 1936 in Potamitissa)

COSTAS, Papacostas. (Active in the Yialousa/Yeni Erenkoy area, after independence, he served in the Greek Cypriot Army, reaching the rank of colonel. He supported MAKARIOS and was imprisoned by SAMPSON after the 15.07.74 coup. He retired as a Deputy Police Chief. In the 90s, he was elected a South Cyprus Member of Parliament.

CONSTANTINOU, Pitsa (She was one of the GRIVAS female bomb-throwers.)

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