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This year’s annual service was held indoors and in a COVID-19 safe environment.
Greek community members representing organizations from northern Greece, across the Peloponnese and the Aegean laid wreaths in unison in honour of George Foot and all who served in the Greek campaign.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Mr Lee Tarlamis OAM MP said that it was important to remind local communities of the links between Greece and Australia through the Anzac tradition.
Mr Douglas Pendergast, Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL President, conducts the 2021 Anzac Day service. Photo: Lee Tarlamis 2021
“George Foot was a local Oakleigh boy who volunteered in WW2 and served bravely in the Greek campaign, evading capture, escaping from the Germans on the mainland with the help of local villagers in the Mani region of the Peloponnese and was successfully evacuated to Crete by the Royal Navy.”
15 April 2021 10:14am
Eighty years ago – on 16 April – Agios Dimitrios and its valley to the west of Katerini were visited by fire and fury as its Allied defenders faced the German invasion of Greece. Thessaloniki and the defences of northern Greece had already fallen. Now the Germans were trying to force their way through the mountains passes and valleys that led to Greece’s central plane and on to the south. This advance would see major battles take place at Vevi and Servia to the west and Platamonas and the Tempe Valley to the east. These battles were fought in early April, with Anzac and British troops joining with Greek Army forces outnumbered by superior German forces. Though they all succeeded in holding up the German advance for crucial days, enabling the withdrawal of Allied forces, this was at a terrible cost in terms of lives and equipment lost.