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Prince Peter and Greek ministers wait at the headquarters

26 April 1941 Proven

Baillie-Grohman's report lists who was at the headquarters at Myloi on 26 April 1941: General Wilson, Major-General Heywood, Rear-Admiral Turle, Brigadier Salisbury-Jones, Prince Peter of Greece, Admiral Sakellariou, the Greek minister of the interior and three other Greek ministers or courtiers. King George II had asked Wilson to bring out Prince Peter, Admiral Sakellariou and the minister Konstantinos Maniadakis.

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Where
Olive grove headquarters (1941)
Who
Henry Maitland Wilson, Harold Tom Baillie-Grohman, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, Alexandros Sakellariou, Konstantinos Maniadakis
Threads
War and occupation
Certainty
Proven confirmed by primary sources

Sources

  • Supplement to the London Gazette no. 38293, 19 May 1948: despatch of Admiral A. B. Cunningham with the report of Rear-Admiral H. T. Baillie-Grohman, par. 31 Open
  • H. M. Wilson (Field-Marshal Lord Wilson), Eight Years Overseas 1939–1947, London: Hutchinson 1950, pp. c. 95–98 Open
  • J. O. Iatrides (ed.), Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece 1933–1947, Princeton 1980, diary April 1941 Open

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