DISCOVERER OF PENICILLIN
SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING TO MARRY (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, April 8. Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, who is ?1, will marry Mrs Amalia Coutsouris, a 40-year-old Greek woman surgeon, in London today. Mrs Coutsouris, who is better known as Dr. Veyreka, was a war-time heroine, who risked her life to hide escaping New Zealand and British officers and men in her Greek home. Caught by the Germans ,she was tortured and sentenced to death, but the Allied victory saved her. Later both Field-Marshal Lord Alexander and the New Zealand Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) wrote tributes to her. Sir Alexander Fleming, whose first wife died in 1949, has one son, a 27-year-old doctor.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 13
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