Georgios Charalambous studied at Flasou primary school and worked as a carpenter. He lived in the village of Kyra in the province of Morphou, where he was engaged to Chrystalla Ioannou and was preparing to get married on October 30, 1955. In the fight he collaborated with a student group of the Morphou Teaching College.

In October 1955, Digenis had given an order for militant demonstrations, even in case of intervention by the authorities, on the occasion of the anniversary of October 28, 1940. The British authorities in Cyprus did not allow the celebration of the glorious anniversary and, as Digenis characteristically mentions, “it was obvious that the dictator wanted to suffocate the national celebration in blood”.

In the town of Morphou, the head of EOKA at that time was the high school teacher from Greece, Vasilios Barpanis, who organized the demonstration. In this the students of the Morphou High School and the students of the Teachers’ College, joined by many citizens, marched towards the police station and forced the police and the British soldiers there to leave the station.

As they were leaving, bombs were thrown at them, two of which exploded. In the meantime, a group of protesters tried to set fire to government buildings. The British soldiers fired into the crowd, wounding three people, one of whom was Georgios Charalambous, who died a few days later, on November 5, 1955, at the Nicosia General Hospital, where he had been taken.

His death ignited anger and steeled the will to continue the s truggle, which was still in its first phase.