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PAFITIS, Yannis. (On 26.11.55, the day Governor HARDING declared a State of Emergency, the Field Marshal was due to attend the annual charity ball organized by the Caledonian Society at the Ledra Palace Hotel. Convention dictated the most influential British subjects in Cyprus attended. For Eoka, the gathering was a tempting target. Pafitis, the hotel's odd-job man, was assigned to throw grenades at the dancers when they took to the floor. He was to black out the ball room by cutting the electricity from the hotel's main switchboard and let off the grenades. Fortunately, for the guests, the grenades failed to be very effective. There were no fatalities recorded. Pafitis was questioned by the police, but they did not suspect him, and he was released a few days later.

PAIONIDES, Loukas (No details available at present).

PALAICHOROU, Andreas. (Born Palechori 1917, he was an Aminandos mines' laborer, until he joined a mountain group in the Pitsilia area. He was caught and interned.)

The Pallikarides monument in Lysos, where visitors are told the EOKA fighter 'defeated the British Army'!

*** PALLIKARIDES, Evagoras (He was hanged in Nicosia Prison on the night of 14.03.57 for his Eoka activity. Born in Tsada village, he was 18-years-old, the youngest terrorist to face the gallows. He is believed to have been one of those who murdered the Abbot of the Chrysoroyiatissa. AEP Paphos - Athletic Union Paphos - a Cypriot football club has badge comprising of blue shield with some white lines and a circle, the center of which shows an image of Evagoras Pallikarides.)

Pallikarides (extreme right) in the hills with his Eoka comrades

In November 1955. Pallikarides' district commander gave him a 0.38 revolver, and told him to execute a 60-year-old villager in Lyso named Tomazos, who was said to collaborate with a Turkish policeman. The old man pleaded he was no traitor; the Turk was simply a friend of his and begged for pity. Pallikarides offered to give him time to say his prayers, then shot him in the left side.

Pallikarides was hanged alongside a man 10 years' older, who had murdered a fellow-villager by stabbing him 22 times!

Pallikarides, originally from Ktima, had been captured by a Royal Artillery patrol in the Lyssos area on 18.12.56. Lyssos was notorious for its Eoka lairs and hideouts. There, a Greek Orthodox priest - ARTEMIOS - from the local Agioi Pantes church kept the terrorists supplied and provided them with alibis. Pallikarides, a self-styled poet, defended himself in court. Today the town's administration - with help from the 'Historical Memory Council of the Eoka Struggle (SIMAE) - has reconstructed the hide used by Pallikarides. He was part of a gang, whose other members escaped without a fight, leaving him to fend for himself. He put up no resistance.
Charged with carrying a gun, he was sentenced to death. Many people consider his sentence was unjustified. They say the weapon - a Bren gun - was heavily greased and would require an expert to make fire-worthy. GRIVAS did not help: he said the youth was ferrying several guns to the terrorists.

The youth's record shows he was a dedicated enosist at school, had organized anti-British demonstrations during the Coronation celebrations in 1953 and distributed Eoka leaflets via school friends in Paphos. He was also known to have murdered at least two Greek Cypriots, one of whom was the mukhtar of Kili, the next village to his (Tsada). DROUSHITIS was supposed to have instigated the killing over a land dispute. The CID knew that these murders were not politically motivated and showed the evidence to Governor FOOT, convincing him Pallikarides was not an heroic patriot as projected by Eoka.

Despite appeals from his parents for clemency, he was executed on 14.03.57 - the last terrorist to be hanged. His final words were: 'I shall climb up a hill, I shall follow paths in order to find the stairs that lead to freedom.')

In 2005, Panicos CHRYSANTHOU, a Greek Cypriot filmmaker, wrote and directed Akamas, a motion picture about Eoka in which a character (Pallikarides) executes a priest, accused of being a 'traitor to the cause'. The Republic of Cyprus government, which had part-funded the film, immediately withdrew its subsidy after the director refused to change the killing scene to a coffee-shop. Leading the outcry against the movie was Sotoris SAMPSON, the MP son of the Ledra Street killer, Nicos SAMPSON.)

In September 2008, the museum dedicated to his memory in Tsarda was defaced with lewd graffiti, full of sexual references.

PALSALOS, Costas. (Originally from Lyssi, he was captured by a patrol of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment in Akhna village on 28.02.57.)

PANAYI, Chrysostomos. (This 18 year-old was found guilty of the murder of L/Cpl, C N KEIGHTLEY, RMP, on 19.05.56 by throwing a grenade into his Famagusta/Gazimagosa quarters. He received a death sentence, which was later commuted to a life sentence as 'a gesture of goodwill' in view of his age and the announcement in August by Eoka to call a unilateral truce.)

PANAYI, Theoris. (Born 1937 in Phrenaros, Famagusta District. No records found.)

PANAYI, Vassos. (He was killed on 04.11.56. Born 1929 in Neochorio PFO he was a shepherd until he joined Eoka.)

*** PANAGIDES, Andreas (With Michael KOUTSOFTAS, he was sentenced to death for the murder of Cpl Paddy HALE. Both killers were hanged 21 September 1956. Panayides was survived by his wife Yiannoula and their three children. At the outbreak of the outbreak of the conflict, Panayides, who was working as a cook in British Army canteen at Nicosia Airport, volunteered himself to Eoka. His priest in Palaiometocho took his oath.

The day KARAOLIS and DIMITRIOU were sentenced to death, Panayides smuggled a Greek flag into the airport, hoping to raise it as sign of protest. The flag was found and a British soldier ordered him to wipe his boots on it. Panayides refused and a fight ensued. The next day HALE was shot dead. His last words were: 'My beloved children, at the age of 21 I am dying for the sake of a great idea. Your mother and your uncle will in time explain to you why I was executed. I pray that you may become good Christians and good Greek Cypriots. Always follow the path of virtue.')

PANAYIDES, Christofis. (He was killed on 02.08.58. Born in Lysi 1939, he was a painter and decorator. Part of a hit and run group he met his death in Trimithousa/Erdenli)

PANAYIDES, Dafnis (After his escape during Operation Lucky Alphonse, GRIVAS hid in this businessman's Limassol home until September 1956, when he moved to another 'safe house' 100 yards from the town's bypass road. Panayides, a market gardener, became an Eoka member in 1954.)

PANAYIDES, Leonidas (He was an active supporter of EOKA, but never a full member of the organization. Born in 1914, he emigrated from Astromeritis, Cyprus, in 1936 and settled in the UK. A religious man, he involved himself in church matters and became the chairman of the All Saints Church Committee in Camden Town, London. The church catered for the needs of London's Greek Cypriot Community. During the EOKA conflict, he was a leading member of the 'Cypriot Brotherhood', raising money for 'the cause' and visiting convicted EOKA terrorists held in UK prisons. After independence, his friend Archbishop MAKARIOS offered him several ministerial posts in the new government. Following his death in 1997, his son said: 'He was a 'true Cypriot'' In the mid-50s, Panayides was investigated by the British authorities and his businesses suffered a number of attacks.' At the start of the conflict, there were 30,000 Greek Cypriots living in Britain and were sending about 15,000 pounds a month to relatives in Cyprus. Many sympathized with EOKA and demonstrated for the Island's union with Greece - enosis.)

PANAYIDES, Maroulla, Mrs. ('On the whole, I found women more trustworthy and less talkative than men,' GRIVAS said about Mrs Panayides and Mrs Elli CHRISTODOULIDES and her neighbour, who carried his correspondence for two and a half years without once losing a letter, occasionally relieved by Miss Elizabeth NICOLAOU, a twenty year old Sunday school teacher in Limassol. Mrs Panayides became one of GRIVAS's several mistresses.)

PANAYIDOU, Cloe. She was the Director of the Larnaca Children's Home, which was a charitable institution actively supported by the British establishment. Lady Harding often visited to discuss the Home's needs. She was unaware that Panayidou supported Eoka and allowed the organization to store weapons and munitions in the Home's premises.

* PANAYIOTOU, Andreas (Born 1936 in Phylia, he was injured in the Troodos when he tried to escape from his captors. He died in custody the next day after interrogation in the Platres Detention Center by Capt F L SAVERY of I. Corps at the military HQ in Panos Platres in November 1956. His death was caused by a heart attack and a haemorrhage, said the government's pathologist in Nicosia.)

PANTAZIS, Pantelis. (He survived the conflict and was one of the Eoka area commanders who attended GRIVAS's farewell party in March 1959.)

PANAYIOTOU, Evangelos. (Sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on 17.10.56 for possessing explosive devices. He served in the British army during WW2. At the time of arrest he was a teacher at the Central Lyceum, Larnaca. His students immediately went on strike and Governor HARDING ordered the school's closure.)

PANAYIOTOU, Neaklea (Section leader in Palodhia/Limassol. No other details.)

PANAYOTIS, Pavlou (He was a member of a mountain gang that operated in the areas of Zodia Morphou/Guzelyurt and Astromeritis, where he was wounded and captured on 18.10.58. By the time of the declaration of the 1960 Republic he still had not been tried and was, therefore, released.)

PANAYISTOU, Pavlos (As a goodwill gesture Governor FOOT commuted death sentences to terms of life imprisonment for several Eoka prisoners. These included Panayistou.)

PANTAZIS, Alecos (Born Pano Archimandriti in 1934, he worked as a government clerk while a member of two hit and run gangs - one in Nicosia, the other in Famagusta.)

PANTELAS, B (He belonged to and hit and run group in Mesoyi Chlorakas)

PANTELIDES, Menalaos (A former Greek General, originally from Famagusta, he trained several Cypriots in sabotage techniques. The students included Maroulla, ANDREAS AZINAS's wife, and PATROLOS STAVROU, Private Secretary to Archbishop MAKARIOS, He expected to become EOKA leader, but GRIVAS grabbed the job.)

PANTELIS, Christofis (He was captured near Akhna on 01.04.55 and sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment. He was brother of Modestos.)

PANTELI, Modestos (He was EOKA's first casualty, electrocuting himself on 1 April 1955, when he tried to sabotage an electricity power station in Ammochostos near Famagusta. Born in Liopetri, on 16 December 1923, he was the son of Pantelis Georgiou and Chionou Panteli. Along with Andreas KARIOS, Panteli attempted to short circuit high tension cables by throwing a wet rope over them. with a rock at its end, attached to a chain, over the barbed wire of the station. He was the brother of Christofis PANTELI, another EOKA gang member.

PAPACHARALAMBOUS, Andreas (No details available at present).

PAPACHARALAMBOS, Priest. (His house in Saranti village was used regularly by Eoka mountain groups, including the one to which Charalambos PETTERMERIDES belonged. Eventually British troops blew up the priest's house.)

PAPACHRISTODOULOU, Andreas. (A director of the Bank of Cyprus, he was one of the few well-educated members of Eoka who came from the Island's professional classes.)

PAPACHRISTODOULOU, Stelios. (Born 1940 in Agros in the Troodos Mountains.)

PAPACHRISTOFOROU, Evagoras (He was ordered to 'execute' 18 year-old Michael ASHIOTIS, who was with him and Polyvios MYLONAS in a hide in the Kyperounda area. The order was sent directly by GRIVAS, because the Eoka leader believed any one who escaped from Kokkinotrimithia Detention Camp was 'turned' - as Ashiotis had. When Ashiotis discovered his companions were to kill him, he did away with them first. In December 1955, Papachristoforou assisted GRIVAS to escape British troops approaching the 'Leader's' hiding place in Spilia. His father, a priest interned at Pyla/Pile, was refused permission to attend his funeral.)

PAPACHRYSOSTOMOU, Christos ((The Deputy Headmaster of the Payncyprian Gymnasium in Nicosia, he headed the team that made explosives for EOKA's bombs. His chemist was Nicos SERVOS.)

PAPACOSTAS, Costas. (He was born 12 November 1939 in Agia Triada, Yialousa, part of the Karpassia peninsula. During the Eoka conflict, it is claimed he belonged to the killer group that murdered Mrs Catherine Cutliffe in Famagusta. After Cyprus independence he served in the Greek Cypriot Army and National Guard. He retired with the rank of Colonel and went on to become Deputy Chief of the Cyprus Police, with special responsibility for the establishment and command of the Mobile Immediate Action Unit, a force created to fight terrorism and organised crime! Today he lives in Nicosia, with his wife, son and daughter. He is a member of the Greek Cypriot Parliament, today representing the Communist AKEL.

PAPADAKIS, Andreas. (He was a member of the arms smuggling team based in Limassol.)

PAPADOPOLOUS, Paschalis (At the start of the Eoka conflict, he was the secretary of a right-wing trades union. Because GRIVAS needed a 'safe' house in the Nicosia area, he rented one in his name as tenant to provide cover for the EOKA leader. Yannis ALEXANDROU, a fellow unionist, built GRIVAS a hideout under the house. As the conflict wore on, Papadoplous turned informer and assisted the Security Forces. He was a very valuable source of intelligence and many analyses of EOKA methods and investigation were based on information he provided.)

PAPADOPOULAS, Kypro (Born in Paraklisha in 1935, he was a radio and electrics student who belonged to a hit and run group in Paphos.)

PAPADOPOULOS, Antonios (One of the few terrorists from the start of the conflict on 01.04.55, he operated in Varosha/Maras, the modern section of Famagusta. On 3.9.55 he led a successful raid on Paralimni Police Station and got away with large quantities of arms and munitions. In September 1956 he escaped from Pyla/Pile Detention Camp, with Pavlos PAVLAKIS. Both spoke good English and had personalities which appealed to their guards, who relaxed their security arrangements. Papadopoulos became an EOKA Area Commander. On 3 March 1957, he surrendered, with three others, to 1 DoW Regiment as Operation Whisky Mak neared its climax on 3 March 1957. Their leader Gregoris AXFENTIOU, with whom they were hiding in a cave near Makhaeras Monastery, had ordered him. He is no longer alive. An athlete and a skilled footballer, he became the captain of Anorthosis, a Famagusta football team after independence. A stadium in Larnaca commemorates his name. The man who had a £5,000 on his head ended his days as a school headmaster.)

PAPADOPOULOS, Ioannis. Code-name: Androklis. (Born Cairo, Egypt in 1928. Little known.)

PAPADOPOULOS, Tassos Code-name Defkalion (A member of the Nicosia gang of Eoka terrorists, he became a member of the MAKARIOS government after Cyprus gained independence in 1960. He was first appointed Minister of the Interior, but GEORGADJIS 'persuaded' 'Black Mak' to change his mind in his favor. In March 2008, Greek Cypriots delivered a resounding 'no' to his policies and elected communist Demetris Christofias as their new president.

A young Papadopoulos (extreme left) watches Minister of Interior GEORGADJIS paying his respects to MAKARIOS, soon after Cyprus was granted independence. Most hardline Eoka members were given posts in government, civil service and nationalized industries.

In 2003, he was elected President of Cyprus (Greek).

As a young man, he trained as a lawyer in London. Sensing an opportunity for power, he returned to Cyprus in 1957 and ingratiated himself with PEKA, Eoka's expanding political wing. In February 1959, he attended the Lancaster House conference in London on the future of Cyprus, but on his own initiative as MAKARIOS chose not to invite him in case he expressed too many pro-GRIVAS views. He was one of two delegates - arriving as 'independents' - to vote against the agreed settlement.

On 15.03.59, at a reception hosted in the house of Nicosia businessman Gabriel GAVRIELIDES, GRIVAS authorized Papadopoulos to pay £100 to every guerrilla now returning home. Later, in the run-up to independence, MAKARIOS appointed him to the 'Transition Committee' to handle 'Internal Affairs'.

Today he is married to Fotini MICHAELIDES She was the millionairess widow of Polycarpos GEORGADJIS.

While MAKARIOS was never certain where Papadopoulos's loyalties lay in the struggle between himself and GRIVAS, he always gave him important posts in his administration. Nobody disagreed that Papadopoulos was driven by personal ambition. In 1976, MAKARIOS ordered him to negotiate a settlement with the Cypriot Turks now that the Island was split after the Turkish invasion/intervention two years earlier. His 'peace' proposals were considered 'totally unacceptable' by the Turks.

A dedicated Hellenist, Papadopoulos was sharply criticized in late 2006 for being out of touch with reality. According to Greek Cypriot journalist Loucas Charalambous, the Greek Cypriot President 'is the only man after Christ to have raised people from the dead. He was quoted as saying in the September 4, 2004 issue of the Khaleej Times: "From 1963 to 1974 how many Turkish Cypriots were killed? The answer is none." According to UNFICYP during this period some 600 Turkish Cypriots were killed. Christ managed to resurrect only one person - Lazarus - but Papadopoulos has resurrected 600.')

PAPADOPOULOS, Vassos (He was the owner of the Acropolis Taxi Company in Famagusta. He organized the clandestine return to Greece of several Greek Army cadets.)

PAPADOPOULOUS, Andreas (He operated in Limassol, Episkopi, Born in 1929, he was a civil engineer by profession and built the hide in Limassol used by GRIVAS. He was caught and interned by the British.)

PAPADOPOULOUS, Christodoulis. (A male hospital nurse he joined a mountain group in Kyperounda, Troodos.

PAPADROPULOS, Antonis. (He was caught in March 1957 with several others, when they were ordered to surrender to British soldiers by Gregoris AXFENTIOU, their leader, with whom they were hiding in a cave near Kykko Monastery. On 03.09.55 he had led his group in an attack on Paralimni police station, getting away with large quantities of arms and munitions.)

PAPAEFSTATHIOU, Savvas. (Born 1935 in Platanistassa, his gang operated in the Paphos area. During the grape harvest in 1956, he electrically detonated mines under an army convoy. GRIVAS claimed three soldiers were killed.)

PAPAGATHANGELOU, Papastravros The head priest at the Phaneromeni Church in Nicosia was an outspoken supporter of Eoka. He had groomed many of the future young terrorists under cover of religious instruction. More insidious was the preparatory propaganda he conducted in the name of religion by a network of religious organizations of which the chief was OHEN. (Orthodoxos Hristianiki Enosis Neon = Orthodox Christian Union of Youth). He was the president of OHEN, after MAKARIOS nominated him. Following several meetings with GRIVAS in late 1954, he sent the 'leader' those youths he thought best for guerrilla training. But GRIVAS made clear that Papastavros' zeal in recruiting for the secret organization and enthusiasm for 'blood, sacrifices, sabotage and dynamite' did not entitle him to give orders. In his diary entry for 22 November, GRIVAS underlined the point: 'Recruits to receive orders from the military leaders, not from him.' Papagathangelou was deported to the Seychelles with Archbishop MAKARIOS on 9 March 1956 on the orders of the Governor, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, who believed the priest's role in Eoka was 'exceptional'.

PAPAGEORGHIOU, Athanasios. (In October 1958, this Ethnarchy official started working in Nicosia as GRIVAS's chief 'postmaster'.)

PAPAGEORGHIOU, Spyros (Born 1940 in Trimithousa/Erdenli, he became a student courier in the Aglantzia area, Nicosia.)

PAPAGIORGIOU, Loukia (She died in Avgorou village on 05.07.58. When a Troop of the Royal Horse Guards, searching for Andreas KARIOS, arrested a youth suspected of Eoka connections, the village women started to riot, led by Loukia. More than 200 villagers surrounded the soldiers. Lt H D BLAKE called for assistance, With village youth hurling bricks and clamouring over their armoured vehicles, he fired his Browning machine gun. A bullet ricocheted from a wall and hit Mrs Papagiorgiou, killing her. Sir Hugh FOOT, the Governor, said: 'Throughout the incident he (BLAKE) acted with great calmness and restraint, and the moment of opening fire was delayed as long as possible, and was then only done by himself personally to save the lives of his men and to protect his vehicles.' Papagiorgiou's death, nevertheless, was a great Eoka propaganda coup. She was the mother of six and pregnant at the time.)

Mrs Papagiorgiou lies in a mortuary

PAPAHARALAMBOUS, Adamakis, alias Makis,. (Born in 1939, he operated in Trulli. Aged 17, he came to the attention of the security forces on 04.09.56 in Larnaca for shooting at a policeman. His bushy eyebrows and light hair brushed backwards gave him a distinctive appearance.)

PAPAIACOVOU, Costas (As a goodwill gesture Governor FOOT commuted death sentences to terms of life imprisonment for several Eoka prisoners. These included Papaiacovou)

PAPAIOANNOU, Ezekias. (Based in Kellaki, formerly from Nicosia. He was aged about 49. He had a scar on the left side of his face and burn scars on his right wrist. Nothing known of his activities, but wanted by the police for EOKA membership.)

PAPAIONNOU, Petros. (A former policeman, he helped plan the escape of the 16 terrorists from Kyrenia/Girne Castle in September 1955. He remained in confinement, because, he said, he feared recapture and could face a death sentence if an 'informer' in the prison gave the court evidence he had been an Eoka 'executioner'. It was a convoluted 'story', which left out the fact that he, Papaionnou, was the informer and the security forces were aware of the escape arrangements, hoping the escapees would lead them to GRIVAS. This is why out of the 16, only nine stayed at large while the others were rounded up within hours.)

PAPAKYRIACOU, Elias (He was killed by 1 RUR during the 'siege of the Leopetri Barn' on 02.09.58. As an Eoka terrorist, he had taken part in several grenade attacks on British Forces in the Famagusta/Gazimagosa area. His proudest achievement was stealing automatic weapons from French troops who were in Cyprus, following the Anglo-French Operation Musketeer against Egypt. Later, with others, he attempted to sabotage water supplies in Vatili. On 31.07.58 his group were engaged by the British and Papakyriacou was slightly wounded before escaping to meet his death another day.)

PAPAMICHAEL, Nicos. (He was captured by a Royal Leicestershire Regiment patrol in Akhna on 28.02.57. One of a seven member Eoka gang, he owned the property which was used to hide the terrorists. 'When we first approached the house, there was a tractor working nearby. I think its noise must have covered us, for we were almost upon the house before we were spotted,' said Private Chris Roberts, a 20 years-old regular about the arrests.)

PAPAMILITIADES, Maroulla. (She helped Andreas AZINAS to smuggle arms to Cyprus from Greece. The 'papa' prefix to her name indicates her father was a priest. The family was related to Archbishop MAKARIOS.)

PAPAMILTIADES, Takis. (In 1956 he went to Athens, with others, to train as a radio operator. Eoka had ambitious plans to set up a secure radio network so that GRIVAS could co-ordinate the activities of his gangs more swiftly. Another Eoka hope was to land weapons by air at hidden locations, guided by these operators. He was Maroulla Papamiltiades' brother.)

PAPAPHILLIPOU, Savvas. (Born 1936 in Kambos.)

PAPAPHILLIPOU, Savvas. (Another man of the same name was an active hit and run member in the Engomi area of Nicosia.)

PAPAPHOTIS, Photis (Immediately Field Marshal Sir JOHN HARDING arrived in Cyprus to take over as Governor of Cyprus in October 1955, Papaphotis and his gang raided Lefkonico/Gecitkale Police Station and got away with all the station's arms and ammunition. As son of Akanthou's mukhtar - headman - he was recognized and never stopped from walking in and out of local government buildings. By the end of the war, he was the EOKA commander in the northeast of the Island.
Born 1934 in Akanthou, he was a theology student at Athens University until the start of the EOKA conflict. He returned to Cyprus in May-June 1955, one of a group who had undergone military training with the Greek Army. Later he became an 'expert', with PAVLOS PAVLAKIS, in manufacturing and laying mines in the Famagusta district. Papaphotis lost a hand while playing with his explosives, but still became an EOKA Area Commander. He was
Following the 1959 Cyprus settlement, MAKARIOS claimed in September that he had evidence of a conspiracy against him organized by Papaphotis, who wanted to repudiate the terms of the agreement between Britain, Greece and Turkey on independence for Cyprus. Papaphotis was accused of creating a new underground movement - KEM or the Union with Greece Front, backed by GRIVAS and the Bishop of Kyrenia. The 26 year-old was immediately expelled from the Cyprus Reconstruction Front and EDMA - EOKA's political successor. In 1972, Papaphotis became general secretary of the anti-MAKARIOS organization EOKA-B led by GRIVAS and backed by the Greek military government.

PAPAVERKIOU, Georghios (He was killed with Takis SOFOCLEUS on 07.02.57, when their ambush of a military convoy ended in failure.)

PAPPAS, Christodoulis. (Few details, except that he was a member of a hit and run group in the Troodos.)

PAPSGEORGIOU, Loukia. (He was killed on 05.07.58)

PARASKEVA, Andreas. (Born 27 July 1940, the 17 year-old was killed 02.07.57 in Koma tou Yiallou. British forces had tracked him for several days after a failed ambush.)

PARIDES, Michalakis, code-name Laios. (A 'fighter' from the start of the EOKA conflict, he used a forged ID card to move around.

He was captured by the British after throwing bombs in the Larnaca court. He later escaped from captivity on 12.12.57 after he had been moved to Nicosia General Hospital for a nose operation. He returned to Larnaca to become an area commander. Born in Anafotida village in 1933, he was tracked by the security forces after a tip-off an 'informer' to Vavla village, where he was hiding in the home of school teacher CHRISTOS KARAGEORGIS.

He was told to surrender, but refused and fired a shot at British troops. They returned fire and he met his death on 27.08.58.

On his death, GRIVAS said: 'He fulfilled his mission in an exemplary fashion.')

PAROUTIS, Christos (From Argaki, he worked in a auto spare parts shop on the corner of Paphos St, Nicosia. In February 1956, he was ordered, with others, to lay bombs at various points in the capital, all timed to explode at 19.00, during the visit of Colonial Secretary LENNOX-BOYD for talks with Governor HARDING and Archbishop MAKARIOS. It is unclear whether GRIVAS had told MAKARIOS in advance about his intention to break up the talks.)

PARSPOUNA, Andreas. (He was captured by a Royal Leicestershire Regiment patrol in Akhna on 28.02.57. He was one of a seven-member Eoka gang. Pte Philip Barker, 22, said: 'We found two of them in a room of a house, one was under the bed. We brought them both out, together with the man who had given the first warning of our approach. Three others had surrendered outside without a shot being fired')

PASACHALIDES, Loukis (A police officer from Galata, he collaborated with Eoka. He died 07.05 85)

PASACHALIDES, Paschalis (He survived the conflict and was appointed to the 'Transitional Committee' prior to the British handing the administration to Cyprus on independence. Pasachalides represented 'Commerce and Industry'.

PASACHALIDES, Theodorou. (A teacher in Avgorou, he joined EOKA but was assassinated by the terrorists, accused of being a British informer in July 1958.)

PATSALIDES, Andreas. (He was born in 1930 in Kannavia and lived in Kourdali. Initially he worked in the Amiandos Mines and later at the Platania Forest Station. His EOKA activities included an ambush on the Kakopetria-Spillia road, led by Christos TSIARTAS, and the theft of radio transmitters from the forest station where he worked, together with Costas ANAXAGORA. Considered by EOKA as one of its greatest heroes, Patsalides died on 20.06.58 in his house alongside Costas ANAXAGORA, Alecos CONSTANTINOU, Panayiotis GEORGIADES and Andreas PATSALIDES, when a bomb they were making exploded.

Fragments of their bodies were flung as the surrounding field. What caused the explosion remains a mystery, although a Black Ops officer claims his men had intercepted the terrorists' material and changed the timings of some fuzes. Patsalides left a wife, Maria, a 16-month-old daughter and a son born five months after his death. His wife and daughter survived the explosion because they were sitting outside. Maria was complicit in her husband's activities.)

PATSALOS, Minas. (A farmer, he allowed Eoka to hide explosives on his premises for use by the Larnaca gangs. His part in their operations came to a sudden end when a barn exploded, killing a goat and seriously injuring a cow and a pig. A passing military patrol surrounded his house and arrested Patsalos. He claimed that someone with a grudge against him had hidden the explosives in his grain store. His story was disbelieved and he received a 15-year prison sentence.)

*** PATSATSOS, Iakovos (Convicted for Eoka activity and sentenced to death, he was executed in Nicosia prison on 9 August 1956. He was 22-years-old. An extremely religious young man, who worked as printer, he paid the ultimate penalty for killing a Turkish Cypriot police officer, PC Nihat BASIF in North Nicosia on 23.04.56. Passers-by caught him and beat him severely for his crime before handing him to the British for trial. Earlier, in March 1956, he advised Neofytos SOFOCLEUS on the timing mechanism for the bomb placed under Governor HARDING's bed. Patatsos was born in Nicosia on 12.11.31. His last words were: 'My beloved mother I send you my greetings. I am among the angels. I am now enjoying the fruits of my labour. My spirit is fluttering round the throne of our Lord. I want you to be glad as I am.')

PATTIHI, Kyriakos (Born 1924 in Lefka/Lefke. No records available.)

PAVLAKIS, Pavlos (A clerk in a British shipping firm, he was appointed the first Eoka commander in Famagusta/Gazimagosa, when GRIVAS transferred AFXENTIOU to train his volunteers in the Kyrenia/Girne district. He was captured and confined in Pyla/Pile Detention Center, from where, in September 1956, he escaped with another high value terrorist, Antonios PAPADOPOULOS. Pavlakis thought he was a mine-laying expert. His Ardhana gangs operated from May 1955. They played a major role in helping AFXENTIOU.escape from the Pentadaktylos Mountains after he had been betrayed.

PAVLIDES, Konstantinos. (Born Larnaca 1932, he was storekeeper-supplier. No further details. He was interned.)

PAVLOU, Pavlos (Born 1930 in Ardhana, he operated in Varosha/Maras, the modern section of Famagusta/Gazimagosa as a local Eoka administrator. He was proud of having shot Supt E N PEIRCE of the Special Branch in the face, seriously wounding him. His young son, Takis, was used as a messenger for the terrorists. Note: A Greek Cypriot of the same name surrendered himself to the Security Forces and became an informer. For 'services rendered', he was sent to the UK, and provided with a home and a job. He married again in the UK, neglecting to mention he had a wife and children in Cyprus. Later, with his English wife and two Anglo-Cypriot children, he emigrated to Australia as 'Eftichios Georgious TRINGIS', on a British passport. In 2005, his daughter told this writer that he claimed 'Tringis' had been his nickname. His grown-up children were unaware their father was still alive, but felt shamed that he had cut and run from Eoka.)

PELICANOS, Georghios (He belonged to a hit and run group in Kyperounda. Born in 1936, he worked as a coppersmith.)

PETASIS, Stelios. (He became an Eoka Area Commander and survived the conflict.)

PETRIDES, Athos At the outbreak of the EOKA conflict, Petrides was a civil servant. He later became a member of the killer gangs that shot people in the back in Ledra Street, including UK Police Unit members. On 28 September 1956, he was one of three Greek Cypriots who gunned down Sergeant Cyril THOROGOOD and Sergeant Hugh CARTER. The killers got away. Detective Sergeant William WEBB survived the attack. He called Petrides the 'smiling killer'. Speaking to a reporter in 1995, Petrides, an Arsenal FC supporter, said: 'We were firing at each other from 10, 20 yards away. It was like the movies. Now I think only God has the right to take life. But I was 17, a patriot, very religious. I didn't hate the English. They were soldiers like we were.'

PETRIDES, Polycarpos Demosthenis. Code-name: Agavos. (He operated in Milikouri-Agavos. In 1956, he went to Athens, with others, to train as a radio operator. Eoka had ambitious plans to set up a secure radio network so that GRIVAS could co-ordinate the activities of his gangs more swiftly. Another Eoka hope was to land weapons by air at hidden locations, guided by these operators. He returned to Cyprus in early 1958 on a passport with a false name.)

PETRIDES, Savvas (Originally from Polis, he became active at the age of 19. He operated in the Kritouterra area)

PETRONAS, Vassos (He was an 18-year-old, under the command of Tassos SOFOCLEUS, the Kyrenia mountain guerrilla chief. Petronas's most memorable attack took place in mid-September 1956, when he helped ambush two British Army trucks on the Nicosia-Kyrenia Road. GRIVAS claimed the youth used a Bren gun and homemade mortar bombs during the attack in which 2 soldiers were killed. He was arrested, found guilty and began serving a life sentence in 1957. A key figure in the organisation that provided the schoolboy groups with terrorist supplies, he was caught with the following formidable armoury in his possession: 12 home-made bombs, 5 shot guns, 10 2-inch mortar bombs, 1 2-inch mortar, 4 unfilled bomb-cases, 1 Breda LMG, 12 grenades, 1 Thompson sub-machine gun, 1 Sten gun, ammunition, explosives and detonators, 1 revolver and 2 rifles.)

PETROPOULEAS, Notis. Code-name: Evagoras. (A former Greek Army soldier, GRIVAS entrusted him to be one of the conflict's opening night bombers in Limassol. Before the start, he had walked round Government House, without arousing suspicion, to see where bombs could be placed. GRIVAS, eventually, considered him a failure, with a weakness for women and money, who had been 'turned' by the authorities after his arrest. When he was released and arrived in Nicosia, GRIVAS immediately feared capture himself, moved house rapidly and considered having Petropouleas killed for treachery. Others in Eoka preferred he leave Cyprus with the promise never to return. They gave him money, a false passport and a one-way ticket to Beirut.)

PETROU, Christodoulides (Born 1920, few details available. He operated in the Kyrenia/Girne area).)

PETTEMERIDES, Charalambos.(He was killed in Saranti on 06.10.58. The village had two Eoka hideouts, one a house belonging to a priest, PAPACHARALAMBOS, and another a kilometre away in the mountains. The priest's house was blown-up by British Forces. Today a monument has been erected on the site in Pettermerides' memory.)

PHAEDONOS, Phaedon. (The Eoka gang responsible for causing problems in the Dhekelia Military Base was led by Phaedonos, whose members found a safe hiding place within the perimeter in which they hid their arms and munitions. The hiding place was not revealed until after Cyprus declared independence.)

PHIKARDOS, Georghios. (An Enosis agitator he taught botany in Nicosia.)

PHILIASTIDES, Kikis. (Code name: Pavlos. Arrested in the early stages of the conflict, he was released soon afterwards and began operating in the Larnaca area. Some of his Eoka comrades thought he could be an informer. To prove his loyalty he attempted to murder a Greek Cypriot policeman near Larnaca's Rex cinema, but failed. He was forced to hide for five days and nights in an apricot orchard not far from the town center. During Christmas 1955, a British family invited some Greek friends to stay in their home during the festive season. Their friends brought Philiastides with them, introduced as a family relative!)

PHILIPPOU, Loizos (A Paphos academic, he agitated for enosis and supported Eoka)

PHILIPPOU, Michael (He was born in 1940 in Agros. He was a builder-member of ANE)

PHILIPPOU, Theori (He turned informer and took his captors to an Eoka arms cache near Kato Pakna on 18.06.57. While there, he attempted to escape and was shot dead by Turkish Cypriot police officers. His body was riddled with 22 bullets)

PHILLIPIDES, Andreas (Born 1939 at Phylousa, he operated in Ktima)

PHILLIPIDES, Charalambos. (He was killed on 11.10.58)

PIAPARIS, Avgerinos (Born 1932 in Messa. Yittonia)

PIERIDEA, Doros (A Nicosia merchant, he assisted the group in shipping weapons in gas cylinders from Greece. He was the brother-in-law of Stelios GARANIS, son of the Chairman of The Bank of Cyprus.)

PIERIDEAS, Zenon (He was a famous and influential Larnaca businessman and Enosis activist.)

PILAVAKIS, Andreas (He was Loukis's younger brother and a student at Reading University.)

PILAVAKIS, Loukis. (A London businessman and restaurant owner, he was EOKA's contact man and 'fixer' in the UK. He also reported for the Greek language newspaper, Eleftheria. Eoka-inclined students could always count on him to provide accommodation.)

PISSARIDES, Costas. (Interned by the British, he was a student who arranged couriers, transportation and other services for Eoka in Agros.)

PISSARIDOU, Maroulla Hadjipavli. (She was one of the chief clandestine printers, working at the Phaneromeni church, Nicosia, where Eoka propaganda leaflets were turned out.)

PISSAS, Michaliis (He was well known trade unionist of right-wing affiliations and a member of the Ethnarchy Council. At the height of the Eoka conflict, he was rounded up and held at the Kokkinotrimithia Detention Center, where he became spokesman for the inmates committee. In July 1958, he was visited by A C Sedgwick of the New York Times, who reported: 'Mr Pissas charged that the soldiers performing guard duties were in the habit of calling out insults to the inmates and making threatening remarks to them. He asserted that the inmates sometimes had guns pointed at them, presumably to make the threats against them more realistic. The mere fact that any inmates were allowed to be as outspoken as they were seemed to argue against the similarity of this camp with such institutions as the Nazis established during the war (as claimed by Athens Radio).

PISSOURIOS, Andreas (No details available at present).

PISTHENIS, Charalaos (No records found)

PITSSALLIDES, Christakis. (GRIVAS appointed him to the Larnaca Political Committee for the Cyprus. PEKA is the Greek language acronym.)

PITTAS, Photis (He died in a hail of bullets from 1 RUR at 'the siege of the Liopetri Barn' on 02.09.58. Born in Frenaros, he was one of six children. By profession he was a teacher. At the start of the conflict he was teaching at a primary school in Achna. On 10.01.57 he was captured by the Security Forces in Vatili and confined in the Pyla Detention Center from which he escaped on 12.03.58, with Andreas KARIOS. Not long afterwards he became the deputy commander of the Lysi gang. His bust today adorns the town square of Frenaros. Eoka claimed British casualties were very high: there was one - Rfn D KINSELLA.)

PITTALIS, Michalis (He operated around Ay. Theodorous/Cayirova. In February 1956, he was ordered, with others, to lay bombs at various points in the capital, all timed to explode at 19.00, during the visit of Colonial Secretary LENNOX-BOYD for talks with Governor HARDING and Archbishop MAKARIOS. It is unclear whether GRIVAS had told MAKARIOS in advance about his intention to break up the talks.)

PITTARIDES, Solon (He was born in 1932 in Ay Theodorous/ Cayirova, where GRIVAS would later massacre a group of Cypriot Turks. Originally member of the Marcos DRAKOS mountain gang, GRIVAS put him in charge of the Tylliria guerrillas and the Larnaca group. As an Eoka Area Commander, Pittarides was a fugitive on the administration's 'Wanted' list. He was caught during Operation Pepperpot in May/June 1956. For most of his time, he hunted 'informers' within his own groups. He had several code-names, including Nikitaras and Bouboulis. Following independence, he was given the managership of the Mitsibushi franchise in Limassol)

POLYCARPOU, Polycarpos. He was a worked as a film projectionist in in Famagusta and was one of four Greek Cypriots arrested in for the assassination of Special Branch officer WILLIAM DEAR, 61, outside the Heraeon theatre on 15 April 1958. His brothers - Nicos and George - were also taken into custody. EOKA considered Dear the UK's 'chief torturer'.)

POLYVIOU, Andreas. Code-name: Botsari. (A member of the Marcos DRAKOS mountain gang, he was caught during Operation Pepperpot in May/June 1956)

PORAKOS, (He was owner of the Alkminia Hotel, Ledra St, Nicosia. He was executed in January 1956 on orders from 'The Leader' for entertaining senior British officers.)

POSKOTTIS, Stavros. Code-name: Orestos. (He was appointed Eoka's gang commander for Larnaca before the start of the conflict in April 1955. He was arrested on the first day, tried two months later and sentenced to 9 years' imprisonment. From the dock, he shouted: 'The unconquerable Greek soul cannot be daunted by either imprisonment, suppression or any other penalty. There are Greek hearts beating in our chests!')

POTAMITIS, Sophocleus (Born 1935 in Limassol. He belonged to a hit and run group.)

POTAMITIS, Zacharias. (He was native of Limassol, another Eoka smuggler who brought explosives from Athens.)

POULIAS, Georgios. (The Vice Mayor of Nicosia was a highly respected nationalist within the Greek Cypriot community and friend/advisor to Archbishop MAKARIOS, while the latter was exiled in Athens. A noted sporting figure in his youth, he died in Switzerland undergoing medical treatment.)

POULLIDOU-NISSIOTOU, Eve. (She was the editor of the clandestine magazine, Agoge ton Neon. (Upbringing of Youth). Aimed at elementary school pupils, its purpose was to fire the children with enthusiasm for 'the struggle' and to compare it with the mythical history of Ancient Greece. The magazine appeared for the first time on 16.09.58 and lasted 15 issues.)

PRODROMOU, Elia (Akrotiri saboteur, he lived in Pyrgos, Limassol. No other details known.)

PRODROMOU, George. (Few details known, except that he was a member of ANE in Rizokarpasso/Dipkarpaz.)

PROTOPAPAS, Stepanos. (The former General Secretary of the All Farmers' Union, known for its support of Eoka, was arrested by the Security Forces and was one of several prisoners who protested he was tortured.)

PSARAS, Michalakis (Born 1935 in Asha, he became a hit and run group member in Limassol.)

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