| NAME | Deans | Alister ‘Austen’ |
| RANK | IN GREECE
Lance Corporal (& War Artist) |
ON DEMOB
N/K |
| SERIAL NUMBER | SERVICE
8069 |
PRISONER
25926 |
| UNIT | IN GREECE
20 Bn, 2NZEF |
IN CRETE
Commissioned as Assistant War Artist* |
| ACTIVE
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IN GREECE
March – 27 April 1941 |
IN CRETE
28 April – 24 May 1941 |
| METHOD OF DEPARTURE
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Evacuated Porto Rafti – Crete | Flown to Athens as wounded PoW |
| POW CAMPS
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IN GREECE & CRETE
Wounded & taken PoW in 7th Field Hospital, Canea, Crete; PoW Hospital, Kokkinia, Athens; Dulag 183, Salonika. |
IN OCCUPIED EUROPE
Stalag 20A, Torun, Poland (1942-1943); ArbKdo Graudenz, N Poland; Stalag 3D, Genshagen, Berlin (1943);
Stalag XVIIIA, Wolfsberg (1943-1945); ArbKdo 785/GW, Weissenbach;
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| NOTES & SOURCES
Source: Son (Paul) & Wikipedia “At age 92, dad announced that he would like to go back to Greece and Crete to trace his experiences there and remind himself of the wonderful people and scenery that he had encountered. . . . It was there that I first really got a grip of the ordeal that they had all been through.” STORY We are pleased to share with you the story of Alister ‘Austen’ Deans from the information we have in our Archive. Please click on the headings/links below which will take you to the relevant PDF file. Please note we are sharing the contents of our Archive in good faith and in the spirit of the veterans asking us to “Tell Them We Were Here”. The copyright rests with the original authors (as credited), the families and/or The Brotherhood of Greek Veterans. Please contact us at greekveterans@gmail.com if you have any issues or concerns.
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