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Index
Aircraft
Bristol Blenheim
Fairey Swordfish
Gloster Gladiator
Hawker Hurricane
Junkers Ju52
Ju87 Stuka
Messerschmitt Me109
Air Ministry
Allied Forces
Creforce HQ
C Squadron the King’s Own Hussars
B Squadron the Royal Tank Regiment
1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
HQ New Zealand Division
27th NZ MG Battalion
5th NZ Field Artillery Regiment
4th NZ Infantry Brigade
18th NZ Infantry Battalion
19th NZ Infantry Battalion
20th NZ Infantry Battalion
1st Light Troop Royal Royal Artillery
5th NZ Infantry Brigade
21st NZ Infantry Battalion
22nd NZ Infantry Battalion
23rd NZ Infantry Battalion
28th (Maori) Infantry Battalion
7th NZ Field Company
19th Army Troops Company
1st Greek Regiment
10th NZ Infantry Brigade
NZ Divisional Cavalry
NZ Composite Battalion
6th Greek Regiment
8th Greek Regiment
HQ 14th Infantry Brigade
2nd Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment
2nd Battalion the York and Lancaster Regiment
2nd Battalion the Black Watch
2/4 Australian Infantry Battalion
1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
7th Medium Regiment RA (deployed as infantry)
3rd Greek Regiment
7th Greek Regiment
Greek Garrison Battalion
HQ 19th Australian Infantry Brigade
2/3 Field Artillery Regiment RAA
2/1 Australian Infantry Battalion
2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion
2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion
2/6 Australian Infantry Battalion
4th Greek Regiment
5th Greek Regiment
Greek Gendarmerie
HQ Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation
15th Coastal Defence Regiment RA
Royal Marine Battalion
1st Ranger Battalion (9th Battalion KRRC)
Northumberland Hussars (‘Noodles’)
106th Royal Horse Artillery
16th Australian Brigade Composite Battalion
17th Australian Brigade Composite Battalion
1st ‘Royal Perivolian’ Composite Battalion
2nd Greek Regiment
Cretan Division (5th)
7th General Hospital
6th Field Ambulance
Akrotiri Peninsula
Royal Artillery Memorial
Albert Canal
Alexandria
Aliakmon Line
Alikianou
Altman, Captain
‘America First’ Organisation
Amerika
Amos, Private
Andrew, Colonel
Ankara
Ashworth, Private A.
Askifou Plateau
Association of German Airborne Troops
Athens
Axios River
Axis Forces
Luftflotte
HQ Fliegercorps
GGzbV 1,2 and 3 (Ju-52)
22nd Air Assault Division (deployed in Romania)
HQ 7th Flieger Division
(7th) Engineer, Artillery, Machine Gun,
Anti Tank, AA and Medical battalions
1st Parachute Regiment
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
2nd Parachute Regiment
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
3rd Parachute Regiment
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
HQ Air Assault Regiment
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
4th Battalion
HQ 5th Mountain Division
(95th) Artillery, Anti-Tank,
Reconnaissance, Engineer and Signals
Battalions
85th Mountain Regiment
1st Battalion
2nd battalion
3rd Battalion
100th Mountain Regiment
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
141st Mountain Regiment
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
Ayios Nikolaos
Babali Hani
Barrett, Major D.
Bassenge, Colonel
Bassett, Captain
Battles
Beda Fomm
Cape Matapan
Gallipoli
Tel-el-Kebir
Thermopylae
Bedding, Major T.G.
Belgrade
Benghazi
Blamey, General T.
Blucher, Count
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Borwick, M.
Brauer, Major B
Breamish, Wing Commander G.R.
Bronze Age
Brown, Private
Bruce-Mitford, T.
Brunskill, Brigadier B.
Burkhardt, Captain
Burrows, Major
Burton, Sir R.
Butler, Private B.
Cairo
Campbell, Captain
Campbell, Lieutenant Colonel I.
Canberra
Cape Spartivento
Cemetery Hill
Chania Naval Museum
Chappel, Brigadier B.H.
Charlies
Churchill, Winston S.
Clemenceau, P.
Cochrane, Captain
Colditz
Colvin, Major
Constantine I, of Greece
Corinth
Corinth Canal
Corunna
Cumberledge, Mike
Cunningham, Admiral
Cyrenaica
Dakar
Daratsos
Dawson, Captain (acting Major)
De Guingand, Colonel
De Soissons, Louis
Derpa, Major
Dhaskaliana
Dikti Range
Dill, Sir J.
Dill, Lieutenant
Dittme, Lieutenant Colonel
Donovan, Major W., (‘Big Bill’)
Dordrecht
Dowsett, Lance Corporal
Dunabin, Tom
Dunkirk
Dunz, Captain
Dyer, Major
East Hill
Eben-Emael fort
Eden, Sir A.
Elvey, Private
Epirus
Fallschirmjäger
Farran, Roy
Fellows, Private ‘Lofty’
Fielding, Xan
Fleet Air Arm
Forrester, Captain M.
Franco, Generalissimo
Fraser, Private
Fraser, (PM of New Zealand)
Freyberg General B.
Galatas
Gambier-Perry, Major General
Gentry, Lieutenant Colonel
Genz, Lieutenant A.
George, Prince of Greece
Gericke, Captain W.
Glennie, Rear Admiral
Goebbels, Josef
Goering, Reichsmarschall H.
Graham, Major E.F.C.
Gray, Lieutenant Colonel
Graziani, Marshal
Grazi, Count
Grigorakis, Antonis (‘Satanas’)
Guderian, General H.
Guns
20 mm cannon
anti-aircraft
anti-tank
Bofors
Bren
Lee-Enfield, .303
Mauser
MG34
MP40
Thompson, (‘Tommy’) sub-machine
Walther 9mm
Webley 38 revolver
Halder, General F.
Hanson, C. J.
Hargest, Brigadier J.
Hatzidakis, M.
Heidrich, Major R.
Hendaye
Heraklion
Heraklion Historical Museum
Heydte, Captain von der
Hill A
Hill B
Hill C,
Hill
Hill 107 German Cemetery
Hill-Rennie, Private M.
Hitler, Adolf
Homer
Hotel Grand Bretagne
Howard, Corporal
Hulme, Sergeant
Hunt, David
Idomeneus
Imbros Gorge
Immans, Major F.W.
Inglis, Brigadier L.M.
Ios
Iran, Shah of
Jahnke, O.
Jeschonnek, General
Johnson, Captain
Karasos
Kaso Strait
Kasos
Kastelli
Kennedy, Joseph
King, Rear Admiral
Kippenburger, Brigadier H.
Kithera Channel
Kleye, Captain
Knossos
Knossos Hotel
Koch, Major W.
Koenitz, Lieutenant
Komithades
Koryzis, M.
Kriegsmarine
Kriepe, General
Kroh, Major
Larissa
Lassithi Plateau
Lawrence, T.E.
Laycock, Colonel R.
Layforce
Leckie, Lieutenant Colonel
Lefka Ori
Leigh-Fermor, Patrick
Lemnos
Lindbergh, Charles
List, Field Marshal von
Lohr, General
Longmore, Air Marshal Sir A.
Lübeck
Luftwaffe
McDermid, Private
McDonagh, Major S.
Maddon, C.
Maleme aerodrome
Maleme modern airstrip
Marathon
Marshall, Major
Maxwell, Lieutenant
Meindl, General E.
Menzies, R.C.
Metaxas, General
Meurbe, Lieutenant P.
Middle East Command
Military Intelligence Research (MIR)
Minoan Age
Moir, Tom
Molotov
Morse, Captain J.A.V.
Mountbatten, Lord L.
Mount Ida
Mount Olympus
Mussolini, Benito
Mycenean culture
Nagele, Lieutenant
Nagle, Lieutenant
Narvik
Nauplion
Northumberland, Duke of
Operations
Action
Barbarossa
Hannibal
Marita
Market Garden
Mercury
Punishment
Weserubung
Oslo
Palikari
Papagos, General
Paul, Prince of Yugoslavia
Pendlebury, J.
Perivolia
Perkins, Gunner D.C. (‘Captain Vassilos’)
Peter II, of Yugoslavia
Petrol Company
Petroleum Board
Philip, Major W. D.
Pink Hill
Piraeus Harbour
Pirgos
Platanias
Plimmer, Lieutenant Colonel
Ploesti Oilfields
Pridham-Whipple, Vice Admiral
Prison Valley
Proud, Private
Psychoundakis, George
Pumphrey Sir L.
Puttick, Brigadier E.
Raeder, Admiral
Ramcke, Colonel B.
Rapallo, Treaty of
Rawlings, Rear Admiral
Red Hill
Reinhart, Major
Rethymnon
Richtofen, Wolfram von
Ringel, General J.
Ritchie, Sergeant W.
Rommel, General E.
Roosevelt, T.
Rotterdam
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Ruffina
Ruin Hill
Ruin Ridge
Rupel Pass
St George’s Church, Perivolia
Salisbury-Jones, Brigadier G.
Salonika
Sandover, Major
Schaette, Major
Scherber, Major O.
Semmering
Ships
Abdiel
Ajax
Barham
Calcutta
Carlisle
Clan Fraser
Coventry
Diamond
Dido
Dolphin
Eleanora Maersk
Fearless
Fiji
Glengyle
Gloucester
Greyhound
Hereward
Hotspur
Imperial
Juno
Kandahar
Kashmir
Kelly
Kelvin
Kingston
Kipling
Lupo
Naiad
Napier
Nizam
Orion
Perth
Phoebe
Queen Elizabeth
Valiant,
Vampire
Voyager
Warspite
Wryneck
Sitia
Smith, Captain H. M.
Smith-Hughes, Jack
Souda Bay
Allied Cemetery
Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Sphakia
Sponeck, General H. von
Stakoriakis Gully
Stalin, Joseph
Stanley Moss, W.
Stavanger
Stavramenos
Stephanides, Doctor
Stewart, I.M.G.
Stenzler, Major E.
Stockbridge, R.
Student, General K.
Sturm, Major A.
Sullivan, Johnny
Sussman, Lieutenant General W.
Tanks
Matilda
Vickers light
Tanner, Private R. (‘Lofty’)
Taranto
Tatoi Conference
Tedder, Air Marshal A.
Tenedos
Teutonic Knights
Thomason, Major
Thriptis Hills
Tidbury, Brigadier O.H.
Topolia
Torr, Major
Tripartite Alliance
Troy
Tsatsadakis, Captain
Tsipakos, Major C.
Tukhachevsky, Marshal
ULTRA
Upham, C.
Utz, Major
Vasey, Brigadier G.A.
Venizelos, E.K.
‘Vertical Envelopment’, theory of
Vlakherontissa
Volos
Vrysses
Wadi Pigi
Walker, Lieutenant Colonel
Walter, Captain E.
War Cabinet
Warburg
Waugh, Evelyn
Wavell, General A.
Wehrmacht
Weidermann, Captain
Weimar Republic
Wellington
Wenning, Major R.
Westick, G.
Weston, General E.C.
Westphalian Plain
Wheat Hill
White, Private
Wilkinson, P.
Willoughby, Corporal
Wilson, General (‘Jumbo’)
Wingate, O.
Wittman, Colonel
Witzig, Lieutenant
Wolseley, Sir G.
Young, Warrant Officer L.
Young, Major
Zeus