Charalambos Mouskos

He was born in the village of Panagia¹, in the Paphos district, on May 19, 1932.

He fell in battle fighting against the British, on the Nicosia - Kato Pyrgos road, in the Mersinaki location, on December 15, 1955.

Charalambos Mouskos finished the Panagia primary school and the Greek Gymnasium of Paphos². He was a cousin of Archbishop Makarios III.

After special training in Greece, he was appointed director of the Archdiocese's printing house, where the first leaflets and publications of the struggle were printed. At the same time, he acted as an executive of the PEON and OHEN organizations, which were encouraged by the Archbishop. With the beginning of the armed action of EOKA, Mouskos was one of the first five group leaders of the Nicosia³ sabotage groups and came into direct contact with the leader Digenis.

His group, led by himself, took an active part on the night of April 1, 1955, in an attack on the General Secretariat. Later, he was betrayed, but escaped arrest and became a guerrilla in the mountains. He was the first to flee to the guerrilla movement in Kykkos⁴, where others arrived later, to form the first guerrilla group under the name “Ouranos” and led by Markos Drakos.

On December 15, 1955, Charalambos Mouskos, along with his fellow heroes Markos Drakos, Andreas Zakos, Charilaos Michail and four others, set up an ambush against the British at the location of Mersinaki near ancient Soloi. In the battle that followed, Charalambos Mouskos fell and an English soldier was killed.

He is the first EOKA fighter to fall in battle. Andreas Zakos and Charilaos Michail were captured alongside him, seriously wounded, while Markos Drakos escaped with a head wound.