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.

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In the Footsteps of Heroes

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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

Participants - secondary - in no particular order of importance and sometimes, with very tenuous connections to the main subject!

George Psychoundakis. The Cretan Runner. Need I say more? Except that I feel uncomfortable putting George under Secondary Participants. His contribution during the Occupation was up there with the best of them but I need to check up on his part in the Kreipe abduction. Photos of George

Lieut Bob Bury. Leader of the S.B.S. unit carried by Brian Coleman and tasked with using force to deal with German occupying forces at the embarkation beach if necessary.

Stephanoyanni Dramoutanis. The Kapetan of Anogian andartes. Paddy Leigh Fermor and  Ralph Stockbridge were god-parents to Drammoutanis' daughter.

Kapetan Manoli Bandouvas.

General Carta. Commander of Italians of Siena Division in Eastern Crete.

Lieut Franco Tavana. Carta's Chief of Intelligence

Tom Dunbabin

General Bruer

General Muller

Jack Smith-Hughes.    Ran the S.O.E office in Cairo.

Brigadier Barker-Benfield. Commander of S.O.E. in Cairo.

Xan Fielding. Tara resident. Author of Hide and Seek and The Stronghold. See also (Well Met By Sunlight)

Billy MacLean. Tara resident.

Rowly St Oswald, Tara resident.

Arnold Breen. Tara resident.

Sophie Tarnowska. Tara resident. Married Billy Moss.

George Jellicoe

Monty Woodhouse

Lt Cdr F G Pool D.S.O.

Manolis Akoumianios (Manolaki) . Dig Foreman at Knossos, originally under Evans, later Pendlebury. The father of Micky Akoumianakis.

Antonis Grigorakis (Satanas (Satan)) Kapetan (head of a fighting clan)

Manolis Bandouvas (Bo-Peep) Kapetan

Petrakogiorgos (Selfridge) Kapetan of Heraklion province

Grigorakis, Bandouvas  Petrakogioros and their followers eventually became known to the Germans as "Pendlebury's thugs" (Grundon)

Kronis Bardakis (Old Krone) Pendlebury's closest and most trusted aide.