Alexandros Diakos – Rhodes

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Sculpteur 1	NON CONNU
Sculpteur 2	NON CONNU
Sculpteur 3	NON CONNU
Négociant - Distributeur	NON CONNU
Technicien	NON CONNU
Paysagiste	NON CONNU
Fondeur	DURENNE
Architecte	NON CONNU
Adresse ou lieu-dit	Port de Rhodes - Evdomis Martiou ou Elefterias Square
Localité	Rhodes
Pays	Greece
Continent	Europe
Matériau	Bronze
Type d'oeuvre	Monuments aux grands hommes
Morphologie	statue
Année	1950
Titulaire(s) et droits sur les photos	Dominique Perchet - 2007 Photo complémentaire http://www.panoramio.com/user/4288965?with_photo_id=33414989

Historique Lieutenant Alexandros Diakos was the first Greek officer to fall on the field of battle during the Second World War. Diakos was born on the island of Chalki in the Dodecanese. He left the Italian-occupied Dodecanese in 1929 for Athens. Upon graduating Military School in 1934, he was commisioned a Sublieutenant in the Greek Army. At the outbreak of World War II he was a lieutenant commanding the 2nd platoon of the the I/4 battalion. He was among the first to see action and fell on Tsouka Hill, on November 1, 1940, fighting the Italian invaders of Greece.

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