Key Information
Reference code
EVANS 1/4
Title
Diary, Oct-Nov 1944, relating to the German withdrawal from Greece
Date(s)
- 1944 [Oct 21] - 1944 Nov 9 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 item
Scope and content
Diary of events during Operation NOAH'S ARK, operations by Allied and Greek forces during the German withdrawal from the peninsula, including mention of liaison operations with 3 Bn, 28 Regt and 2 Bn, 53 Regt, Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 9 Div; Raiding Support Regiment operations at Orlu; and, the decision to attack the 'Gotsi detachment', in which Bulgarian-speaking soldiers from 2 Bn, 28 Regt, led by Gotsi Deltsif, joined Slav-Macedonian and Yugoslavian partisans to fight against Greek ELAS soldiers in the Vitsi area. 1 item.
General Information
Name of creator
(1913-1994)