ILL Met By Moonlight

The story of the abduction, in 1944 from Crete, of General Kreipe, and of "In the footsteps of heroes", two expeditions in Crete remembering and honouring both the Greek and British heroes involved in the original operation.

Home

Original Home page

Primary Participants

Participants secondary

Locations

Evidence

Literature-(public)

Literature-(other)

Primary Sources

Outstanding- enquiries

Time Line

Motor Launches

Submarines

Operation Bricklayer

Operation Moonstruck 

In the Footsteps of Heroes

Location references

A conundrum

OFF SITE LINKS

The War Graves Photographic Project

John Dillon's Crete site

Paul London's site

Hellenic BookService

ExploreCrete

U.K. Crete Veterans and Friends Society

Hughes Syndrome

Find Maddy

Evidence

This page will show our evidence for some of my/our conclusions as to various locations and the like. 

Signal detailing co-ordinates for beach (Peristeres) from which party evacuated with Kreipe. See Operation Bricklayer link which includes a copy of National Archive said document.

Monument erected at abduction site- is evidence of location and removed that 1% doubt from my first identification.

William Stanley Moss. Copy of his diary, Jan '41 to May '41, which is the basis for his book Ill Met By Moonlight. Consists of 71 pages,  difficult to read in parts,  held at Imperial War Museum London. Ref 13338 05/74/1.