Patrick Leigh Fermor - Wartime Honours and Legacy

Wartime Honours and Legacy

  • Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
  • Honorary Citizen of Heraklion
  • Honorary Citizen of Kardamyli
  • Honorary Citizen of Gytheio.
  • The National Archives in London holds copies of Leigh Fermor's wartime dispatches from occupied Crete in file number HS 5/728.

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