tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post2202117853158929245..comments2024-03-28T06:20:10.699-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Light Greek BeerRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-37995973023798812252013-03-13T06:34:14.509-07:002013-03-13T06:34:14.509-07:00It was indeed a strange time where the historical ...It was indeed a strange time where the historical propaganda rarely meets the accounts of the pepople lived through it. Truth is often lost through the cracks...Germinalhttp://www.athenianbrewery.gr/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-10825226469364664692012-03-27T09:39:19.812-07:002012-03-27T09:39:19.812-07:00Both my grandfathers were in Greece during the Fir...Both my grandfathers were in Greece during the First World War, the paternal one in the Royal Engineers, the maternal one in the horse artillery. Indeed, Grandfather Cornell was among the British troops sent to Georgia after the Great War was over (he used to boast in later years that he'd seen Stalin's birthplace) as part of our little unsuccessful meddle in Caucasus politics, which eventually saw the Soviets re-establish Moscow's rule over Georgia - now THERE'S a chapter of British military history you never read anything about.Martyn Cornellhttp://zythophile.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-48011889867953782142012-03-27T02:53:50.215-07:002012-03-27T02:53:50.215-07:00BryanB, I'm pretty sure it is. Having read a l...BryanB, I'm pretty sure it is. Having read a little about the divisions in Greece, I'm not sure I believe that stuff about the British and Greek soldiers getting on like old friends.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-84075780515553534912012-03-27T01:50:11.226-07:002012-03-27T01:50:11.226-07:00Presumably the photo was taken just after the Fran...Presumably the photo was taken just after the Franco-British landing at Salonica, which accelerated the Greek "National Schism".<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWI#War_in_the_BalkansBryanBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03550482701819539081noreply@blogger.com