Photo Tour of Crete, May 2005

Sunrise on the Venetian Harbour Hania

The prison on the Hania to Alikianos Road.
Looking North to Pink Hill on the left and Cemetery Hill on the right
The square at Galatas. Renamed New Zealand Square
Wreath laying ceremony at Galatas - 20 May 2005.
The veteran in the front row in the maroon shirt is 2 lt. Jack Grennell of 19 Batallion 2NZEF.
The other veterans are all from UK units.

Vintage military vehicles at the Galatas ceremony.
The motorcycle on the right is a 1936 Austrian Puch dropped by parachute in 1941

The gravestone, at the Suda Bay Cemetery of Captain Sean McDonagh
Commanding Officer of the Petrol Company.
Killed in action 20 May 1941

The writer and the monument at Sfakia (Hora Sfakion)
The southern end of the Imbros Gorge.
Thousands of Allied soldiers sheltered in the gorge waiting for evacuation from Sfakia.
George Andr. Hatzidakis, resistance fighter and owner of the private war museum at Askifou

Looking southwards along the road from Galatas to Prison Valley.
Pink Hill is to the right of the sign.

Looking north-west from Pink Hill to Wheat Hill, Theodhori Island is in the background.
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