NAME | Leigh Fermor | Patrick Michael |
RANK | IN GREECE & CRETE
Lt; Capt; Major |
ON DEMOB
Major; Lt Col (Hon) |
SERIAL NUMBER | SERVICE
N/K |
PRISONER
N/A |
UNIT | IN GREECE (& ALBANIA)
Intelligence Corps (SOE) |
IN CRETE
Intelligence Corps & Special Operations Executive |
ACTIVE
|
IN GREECE (& ALBANIA)
7 Jan – 1 May 1941 |
IN CRETE
(i) 4 May 41 – 29 May 41 (ii) 23 June 42 – 24 Sep 43 (iii) 4 Feb 44 – 14 May 44 |
METHOD OF DEPARTURE
|
Caique to Crete | (i) HMS Orion to Alex
(ii) Caique with Italian Gen Carta (iii) Motor launch with German General Kreipe |
POW CAMPS
|
IN GREECE
N/A |
IN OCCUPIED EUROPE
N/A |
NOTES
1 Operated & liaised with Cretan Resistance units, 1942-44, see “Ill Met by Moonlight” 2 Honorary Citizen & Freedom of Kalamata 3 Patron of the Brotherhood of Veterans of the Greek Campaigns For more information please email us at greekveterans@gmail.com and we will forward your request to our Archivist Noah Scott |