People · †1946
Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
British officer (Sherwood Foresters)
Lieutenant-colonel who came down from Athens with Wilson and chartered the caique Aghia Varvara at Myloi in April 1941. Later brigadier; he was killed in the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946.
Also written: Πίτερ Σμιθ-Ντόριεν, P. L. Smith-Dorrien, Colonel Smith-Dorrien
Events
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25 April 1941 – 26 April 1941
Patrick Leigh Fermor arrives in the armed caique Aghia Varvara
Lieutenant Patrick Leigh Fermor, then an intelligence officer with the British Military Mission, sailed the armed caique Aghia Varvara from near Sounion to Myloi, to evacuate General Wilson and Prince Peter if other…
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27 April 1941
The caique with Wilson's luggage is bombed and sunk off Leonidio
After Baillie-Grohman transferred to HMS Havock, the caique Aghia Varvara sailed on south from Myloi with Smith-Dorrien, Leigh Fermor and Wilson's aide. At dawn it reached Leonidio, where German dive bombers sank it in…
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27 April 1941
At midnight Baillie-Grohman sails in the caique; HMS Havock takes him off
As there was still no sign of the destroyer, Rear-Admiral Baillie-Grohman left the quay at Myloi at midnight with his staff and beachmasters in the caique chartered by Colonel Smith-Dorrien, heading for Monemvasia. Later…