| NAME | Pendlebury | John Devitt Stringfellow |
| RANK | IN CRETE
SOE – British Vice-Consul (nominal) (Partisan Liaison & Intelligence) |
ON DEMOB
N/A – executed May 1941, Crete |
| SERIAL NUMBER | SERVICE
N/A |
PRISONER
N/A |
| UNIT | IN CRETE
British Embassy, Crete |
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| ACTIVE
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IN CRETE
May 1940 – May 1941 |
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| METHOD OF DEPARTURE
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*Executed by Germans, 22 May 1941 | |
| POW CAMPS
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IN GREECE & CRETE
N/A |
IN OCCUPIED EUROPE
N/A |
| NOTES
John Pendlebury was an archaeologist working on the excavation of Knossos in Crete. The following taken from Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pendlebury Anticipating the coming war and strategic nature of Crete, Pendlebury succeeded in convincing the British military authorities of the value of his unique knowledge. They sent him back to England for military training, and in May 1940 he returned to Heraklion as British Vice Consul, but his job title did not hide from most of the diplomatic community the nature of his duties. He immediately set-to working up his outline plans: improving the reconnaissance (routes, hiding places, water sources and chiefly sounding out the local clan chiefs. In October, on Italy’s attempted invasion of Greece, Pendlebury became liaison officer between British troops and Cretan military authority. STORY We are pleased to share with you the story of John Pendlebury from the information we have in our Archive. Please click on the headings/links below which will take you to the relevant PDF file. John Pendlebury Greek Campaign 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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