Michalis Marinos Vaios

When Jean Pouilloux and Jean Jehasse went to Salamis in October 1964 to find the site and hire workmen, they met the foreman Michalis, whom Jehasse remembered as agreeable from the first moment and valuable for his competence and his knowledge of the terrain. He introduced them to his family, found them lodging near the sea, with two young women, Loulla and Beba, preparing meals, and then presented their future workmen¹. Vassos Karageorghis gives the full name, Michalis Marinos Vaios, and describes him as a capable, enterprising young man from the neighbouring village of Enkomi, foreman of the mission and responsible for the works and the local labour. A photograph of 1969 shows him with Jean Pouilloux and Karageorghis².

Marguerite Yon records that when the first campaigns of 1965 began, the workers came from Enkomi and Ayios Sergios under the foreman Michalis Marinos Vaios, and that members of the mission formed long friendships with him^3,4. Nothing is recorded of his birth or death.