MISSION IN GREECE
War Incident Recalled (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND May 2. Sergeant Bill Buchanan, M.M., now flying to Greece with the New Zealand party for the unveiling of the British Commonwealth War Memorial in Athens on Maj’ 10, has a self-appointed mission to carry out while he is there.
He wants to apologise to the monks at a remote monastery for his part in the theft during the war of one of their boats to escape from German soldiers.
Sergeant Buchanan had tunnelled out of the Salonika prisoner-of-war camp with other soldiers, and trekked by night 100 miles to the monastery on Mount Athos Peninsula. The monks befriended him and his companions—another New Zealander, an Englishman, and four Australians.
Getting word from the monks that the Germans were looking for them, the soldiers, in desperation, lured the monk on guard from the boathouse and took one of the two fishing boats, this carrying them to Turkey and freedom.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 18
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159MISSION IN GREECE Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 18
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