GENERAL HARDING WITH TROOPS & OPERATION APRIL SHOWER - NO SOUND

(23 Apr 1956)
GENERAL HARDING WITH TROOPS ® ® Helicopter lands. General harding greeted, car drives off. Houses - car and armoured car thru streets. Various shots of armed guards wearing kilts. Harding and party out of building - Harding inspecting soldiers. ® ® OPERATION APRIL SHOWER ® ® Long view over mountains - Soldiers up snow covered hill. Night shots - vehicles along road. Shots of soldiers. Soldiers knock pole into ground. Soldiers carry barbed wire. Soldier rolls barbed wire along ground. Daylight - soldiers putting barbed wire out along ground. MCU soldier. Soldiers on back of lorry along road. Soldiers looking at map etc. Several shots of across fields. Soldiers in jeep. Soldiers thru field. Soldiers walk onto road near a house. MLS church. Soldier across camera - soldiers walking past church. Soldiers including 2 women up stairs. EOKA painted on door. Soldier climbes over wall. MCU Soldier on back of truck towards camera. Troops searches, terrorist suspects fingerprinted, mug shots etc. Suspects in compound.
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[@peterschief9778]

What was operation April showers? Where and when?

[@owlgothic248]

That is the issue when video have no sound

[@twonumber22]

Google won't tell you?

[@martinwest8374]

@martinwest8374
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They are in Cyprus. It was part of the Cyprus conflict when the UK sent 25,000 to try and keep law and order. See my comment for a bit more information.

[@nian60]

I tried googling Operation April Shower and got no result. If I am to guess it is in northern Norway since Norway would have snow in April. But that's a wild guess since I can find nothing when searching. Later in the video there are flat lands and a donkey. So probably not Norway. Good luck if you try to find it.

[@martinwest8374]

They are in Cyprus. It was part of the Cyprus conflict when the UK sent 25,000 to try and keep law and order.
The heading should actually be Governor Harding, not General. Sir John Alan Francis Harding was appointed as British Governor on the island of Cyprus on September 25, 1955.
EOKA (see painted door 3:07) insurgents ambushed a British military vehicle in the Troodos mountains on December 15, 1955, resulting in the death of two individuals and the capture of two EOKA insurgents.
British government troops launched a military offensive (Operation Lucky Alphonse) in the Troodos mountains on June 7-23, 1956, resulting in the deaths of 25 British military personnel and the capture of 17 EOKA insurgents.
Snow occurs on the Troodos mountains.