Location: Famagusta

There has been a camp at Karaolas since WW1 when it was used for Turkish PoWs.

Karaolos was an internment camp between 1946-1949 for Jewish refugees attempting to settle in Palestine.

The school buildings "substandard in almost every respect".

Miss Firmage's class.......summer 1957.

The top & bottom of a Famagusta School report dated 1949.

Information about Famagusta schools courtesy of Joan Nield :

Famagusta had two British Army schools when I was there - a primary and a secondary.
I was at the former and my father taught at the latter.
Cyprus at that time, 1957–58, was not a popular posting because of the political unrest and the EOKA terrorist campaign.
We were given a half promise of a posting to the Far East if we would do one year in Cyprus - so to Famagusta we went.
We were under curfew most of the time.
From our large bungalow in Roosevelt Avenue the children would go in a bus with chicken wire at the windows and an armed soldier as an escort.
The bus went one way and Ernest (my father) went the other way in the car. The schools were not very far away but I said a little prayer each day that all would return home safely.
A loud-speaker van announced that I could go out shopping between certain times. I used a bicycle that could be hopped off quickly rather than a car that would have to be left somewhere.
When we went out in the car we always locked ourselves in and closed the windows. There were times when we ventured out at night to the cinema at the RAF station at Four Mile Point.
Then our baby sitters, usually soldiers, would come complete with rifles or sten guns which they placed ready to hand on the table in the hall. It was a light relief for us and a change for them to be in a home with some grub and a beer.
This particular period only lasted eleven months, from August 1957 to July 1958 when we received a posting to Singapore.