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Observation Post (OP) School

Robert Shipley
RCRM-L2024.007.0003
2022-2024; digital ink and watercolour

OP School is situated on the Green Line, outside Nicosia. A photograph from our collection dated ca. 1970, brings forward some details of the set up, with the corrugated metal as a roof and the soldier painting his helmet while his colleague is watching the surroundings. According to Robert Shipley, who sketched this OP in 1978, it has changed least overtime, with few details altered and some inevitable deterioration. That includes the specific insignia, once of The RCR, now of the British Army who are now in charge of the sector.