ALEXIS PENNY'S BLOG

A. T. Casdagli with Alexis Penny in Crete
on 1 June 1991 for the 50th anniversary of
his capture there on 1 June 1941

A Butterfly Saved My Life!

Myconos Harbour Quite out of the blue, one day in…

March 20, 2019

The Hadamar Kids Club

The Hadamar Kids Club is the only club to which…

March 14, 2019

Blue Tattooed Numbers

My father never talked about the war, at least not…

January 15, 2019

Sleeping With Mosquitoes

A few minutes’ walk from London’s Imperial War Museum, shrouded…

October 16, 2018

By Chance In A Car Park

In a car park by the Fort of Chania, a…

September 15, 2018

Needling The Nazis

I wrote this article for Fine Cell Work’s Prisoners Newsletter….

August 15, 2018

Posthumous Pals

The Mark Coleman Embroidery A T Casdagli had a…

July 15, 2018

From a Prisoner’s Daughter

Esther Freud, the novelist, who I’d never met before but…

June 15, 2018

Among The True Elect

I don’t think my father, A T Casdagli, ever…

May 15, 2018

Poppy Day, 2015

Casdagli by Haig Known as Poppy or Remembrance or…

April 15, 2018

ΌΧΙ! NO! Day!

‘Όχι’ means ‘no’ in Greek. On 28 October 1940, Fascist…

March 15, 2018

War Child

I first met Mrs Mary Agrafiotou at the Launch…

February 15, 2018

Strawberries In Prison

I learn Greek. Francoise in our Greek class, like me,…

January 15, 2018

Casdagli’s Children

Today is 10 April 2015. On this day in 1906…

December 16, 2017

Making the Impossible Happen

“I don’t know how you did that!” gasped the unforgettably…

November 16, 2017

Hats off to Lynda Bellingham!

Sunday, 28 September 2014 I woke up early to do…

October 16, 2017

BIRTHDAY BLOG

Greece, August, 1948. The Second World War ended three years…

September 16, 2017