British Officer’s Courage
(Rec. 8 p.m.) NICOSIA, June 18. A British officer who removed a time bomb from Sir John Harding’s bedroom has been made a member of the Order of the British Empire (M.8.E.). The soldier is Second-Lieutenam Michael Edmund Buckley, aged 19, of the Royal Norfolk Regiment. He carried the bomb out of Government House on a shovel and put it in a sandbagged weapon pit, where it exploded a few minutes later. The bomb under Sir John Harding’s bed was apparently intended to explode at midnight but it was thought that its timing mechanism misfired by 12 hours. The Governor slept on it during the night. A reward of £5OOO was later offered for a 20-year-old Cypriot waiter employed at Government House, who did not report for work the morning of the incident, and has not been seen since.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27999, 20 June 1956, Page 13
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