The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

'Sans Peur' 'Ne Obliviscaris'

A Snapshot of Service in 'A' Company of the Argylls Paphos, Cyprus 1958 Map of Cyprus	from the A&SH tray.......... Dhekelia, Cyprus, break-in at the cookhouse. Tins of bully beef pinched. Some half-eaten chunks of bully beef left lying on the floor. Next morning the RSM assembles the Battalion. 'Who broke into the cookhouse last night?' Nobody answers. 'You think you're fly, eh, but I've got your fingerprints on the bully beef!'

Background Information Paphos is a town and district on the west coast of Cyprus. The other main town in the district is Ktima. Paphos is famous for the temple of Aphrodite (ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty) and Aphrodite's pool (where she emerged from the sea). The beach at Aphrodite's pool was an area where we did much of our training, including our first exposure to live, fixed machine gun firing over our heads.	The Battalion's camp, which was all tented, was located at Limni Mines, where minerals such as copper and iron pyrites had been mined for centuries. (The word for copper is derived from Cyprus, the Island's name) Imagine moving from a majestic Scottish Castle at Stirling to live in a tent beside a copper mine. Like historic Scottish lairds, we were just beginning to enjoy the baronial life style. It was the manner in which we wanted to become accustomed - oh, how the mighty are fallen! Our security patrol work was done in and around the towns of Stroumbi, Polis, Polemi, Ktima and Pano Panayia. Later in the year, 'A' Company spent some time living in the town of Ktima, doing guard duties at the Pyla Detention Camp for suspected terrorists, and street patrols throughout the town.