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British Troops Receive UN Peacekeeping Medals
Hundreds of UN peacekeepers, including a large contingent of British troops, have received their operational medals as they reached the halfway point of their tour in Cyprus.
Members of 36 Engineer Regiment took part in a special parade inside the buffer zone that separates the island’s two communities.
In the past 50 years 186 UN peacekeepers - including 44 British soldiers - have been killed in Cyprus.
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