HEROIC GREEK OFFICER
DEATH IN ATHENS
LONDON, March 17.
A Greek officer on a secret mission to Greece from Greek forces in the Middle East, died a hero’s death in a desperate gun battle against Axis soldiers in the streets of Athens. He was Major John Tsignates, a member of a leading Greek family, and was well known to many Australian and New Zealand officers who served in the Middle East. The Gestapo discovered Tsignates s hide-out in Athens and surounded the house with machine-guns. They covered every exit, but Tsignates contemptuously refused to surrender. Dashing from the house with a drawn pistol, he shot dead two Italian officers, wounded three soldiers, and then fell dead, riddled with bullets. , , a ■ For three days afterwadrs the Axis garrison was in a state of alert and maintained constant armed patrols in the streets, but Tsignates’ grave was smothered in flowers every day and the word ‘‘vengeance” appeared on many walls in Athens.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 May 1943, Page 5
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