The battle for Greece & Crete.pdf - Army Museum of South Australia
The battle for Greece & Crete.pdf - Army Museum of South Australia The battle for Greece & Crete.pdf - Army Museum of South Australia
Recollections of an Australian/Greek Veteran –Sgt Michael (Mick) Doulis 2/1 st Field CompanyEngineersIn the words of Mick Doulis as a boy growing up in Australia I thought that the learning of Greek ‘wasa waste of time’. He was to find that his ability to speak Greek would be most helpful during hisservice in Greece and Crete during the occupation of these countries during World War II.Mick was to remain behind in Crete after the withdrawal of the 6 th Division in 1941 and was to earn thedistinction of being one of the few Australian soldiers to remain on active duty during the occupation.During his thirteen months on Crete he was working for the British Intelligence Service one of his roleswas liaising with the Cretan Resistance.Whilst the locals were able to tell he was not a local due to his accent the Germans were unable to tellthe difference when he was dressed as a Greek and was able to produce Greek identity papers. He wasable to achieve his function of obtaining information for British Intelligence by volunteering to workfor the Germans when other Greeks would not the Germans thought that he was pro-German. One ofhis roles was to locate the German ammunition and fuel dumps pass the information on to the British.The Resistance would then blow them up using their own explosives.During his time in Crete he was captured twice and escaped both times. When he was finallyevacuated to the Middle East he realise how valuable he was as the Germans had placed a bounty ofone million Marks on his head.Mick Doulis- 50 -
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Recollections <strong>of</strong> an <strong>Australia</strong>n/Greek Veteran –Sgt Michael (Mick) Doulis 2/1 st Field CompanyEngineersIn the words <strong>of</strong> Mick Doulis as a boy growing up in <strong>Australia</strong> I thought that the learning <strong>of</strong> Greek ‘wasa waste <strong>of</strong> time’. He was to find that his ability to speak Greek would be most helpful during hisservice in <strong>Greece</strong> and <strong>Crete</strong> during the occupation <strong>of</strong> these countries during World War II.Mick was to remain behind in <strong>Crete</strong> after the withdrawal <strong>of</strong> the 6 th Division in 1941 and was to earn thedistinction <strong>of</strong> being one <strong>of</strong> the few <strong>Australia</strong>n soldiers to remain on active duty during the occupation.During his thirteen months on <strong>Crete</strong> he was working <strong>for</strong> the British Intelligence Service one <strong>of</strong> his roleswas liaising with the Cretan Resistance.Whilst the locals were able to tell he was not a local due to his accent the Germans were unable to tellthe difference when he was dressed as a Greek and was able to produce Greek identity papers. He wasable to achieve his function <strong>of</strong> obtaining in<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>for</strong> British Intelligence by volunteering to work<strong>for</strong> the Germans when other Greeks would not the Germans thought that he was pro-German. One <strong>of</strong>his roles was to locate the German ammunition and fuel dumps pass the in<strong>for</strong>mation on to the British.<strong>The</strong> Resistance would then blow them up using their own explosives.During his time in <strong>Crete</strong> he was captured twice and escaped both times. When he was finallyevacuated to the Middle East he realise how valuable he was as the Germans had placed a bounty <strong>of</strong>one million Marks on his head.Mick Doulis- 50 -
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