1942-1943 RN Liaison Officers on RN ships

British junior naval officers R.N., R.N.R, R.N.V.R., W.R.N.S., S.A.N.F. served on Royal Hellenic Navy ships during WW2. They were mostly Signal Officers and their duties consisted in facilitating communication with the RN.

In the following list are the names of Officers who served on RHN ships in 1942-1943:

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A narration of the activities of the Greek Navy from the Balkan Wars and WW1 to WW2: www.mezeviris.gr

ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ "ΕΛΛΑΣ" Λονδίνον 1 Σεπτεμβρίου 1944 Ο ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΣ ΠΛΟΥΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑΔΡΟΜΙΚΟΥ ΕΛΛΗ

Εις τον λιμένα της Τήνου-Ο τελευταίος πλους του καταδρομικού "ΕΛΛΗ", βυθισθέντος υπό Ιταλικού υποβρυχίου την 15ην Αυγούστου 1940.

The harbour of Tinos, where the Greek cruiser Helle was treacherously sunk by an Italian sumbarine on August 15, 1940

Alexandria, September 1944: A special celebration for the Hellenic Navy

When in April 1941, after Greece was occupied by the Germans, the Hellenic Navy left Greece to continue fighting the enemy from the Middle East, the RHN battleship 'AVEROF' carried to Alexandria, Egypt, Hellenic Earth that hadn't been walked on by the invader. The earth was handed over for safe-keeping to the Patriarchal church of Saint Savas in Alexandria, was consecrated and preserved under the altar of the church.

Yesterday, September 6, 1944, a moving ceremony took place at the church of Saint Savas. After the liturgy celebrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, the archimandrite (dean) of the fleet, the officers and members of the crew of the 'AVEROF' knelt in front of the patriarch and received from his hands in a golden box the Hellenic Earth to carry it back to the liberated homeland...

H.M.S. Submarine PERSEUS - Whispers from the deep

The amazing escape story from a sunken British submarine in 1941, during WW2.

Leading Stoker John Hawtrey Capes gets out of the sunken ship and ascends to the surface from a depth of 52m. He swims to the nearby island of Cephalonia under German occupation, is sheltered by the local peaople for 18 months and escapes by caique to Turkey.

A young Greek naval officer, Lieutenant Nikolaos Merlin, executive officer on the R.H.N. submarine GLAFKOS, on a training mission onboard the PERSEUS, is among the 60 men that lost their lives.

In December 1997, the underwater exploration team of Kostas Thoctarides locates the PERSEUS at a depth of 52m. south of Cephalonia. The divers confirm the unbelievable escape story...

by Rena Giatropoulou & Kostas Thoctarides, Athens 2010, Published by the Hellenic Maritime Museum

FALCONERA by Alexis Ladas

I recommend 'FALCONERA' by Alexis Ladas, 2010, Lycabettus Press.

Alexis Ladas, a 24 year old Captain on a Greek Raiding Schooner in 1944, wrote a fine fiction book I enjoyed reading, inspired by the little known activities of the Greek Schooner raiding Flotilla in WW2.

Εις τον τάφον της "ΕΛΛΗΣ"

Ο λόγος του Ναυάρχου- Αρχηγού Γρηγ. Μεζεβίρη στις 15 Αυγούστου 1945, 5η επέτειο της βύθισης του εύδρομου "ΕΛΛΗ"

Πηγή: Μηνιαίον περιοδικόν της Ελληνικής Θαλασσίας Ενώσεως "ΝΑΥΤΙΚΗ ΕΛΛΑΣ", τεύχος 155, Σεπτέμβριος 1945, Έτος ΙΖ'