ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the historiography of Cypriots at war. It shows that money was a primary motivation; that the Cypriot lower and lower-middle classes were loyal to the allied cause; that numerically far more Greek Cypriots served in the British forces in the Great War than in the Greek forces during any of the wars put together. Greek Cypriots were at least as loyal to the British as they were to the Greek causes, and arguably more so, and they were also loyal to the allied cause, voluntarily serving in the French, Canadian and Australian forces too, in numbers disproportionate to how many Cypriots lived in those countries. More Cypriots were willing to serve for the British Army as auxiliaries than for the Greek Army to fight for a ‘Greater Greece’ after the war, although more money was offered to fight for Greece.
