Chris tells a surprising story of courage, compassion, duty, - and preventative medicine - illustrated by historic and current photos. The story came to light via the recently discovered memoirs of Dr Ralph Tredre and some of the other doctors of the Royal Army Medical Corps in Greece and Crete in 1941.  

Tredre was a GP who volunteered in 1939 and was sent to Cairo and then Greece with the RAMC. Caught up in the German invasion of Greece, he retreated to Crete, where he helped create a hospital in a church after the island was invaded and occupied. He was subsequently captured and became a POW, then escaped, walked through the mountains of Crete, and was eventually repatriated to Cairo on board a British submarine.

Chris and and his brother Peter White have spent a huge amount of time in Crete identifying sites relating to the abduction of General Kreipe in 1944, and have been the organising force behind the recent publication of 'Abducting A General' - Patrick Leigh Fermor's personal account of the kidnap of General Kreipe (see https://www.abductingageneral.info/). 

This talk will be in the pub and not recorded