Vassilis Papadopoulos’s story of his personal experience during the Battle of Rethymno, May 1941, as recounted by him in May 2016 Introduction – by Susan Bessell-Browne In 2016 my brother Guy and his wife Nicola, my partner Ross Hall and I visited Rethymno in Crete where Guy’s, our sister Anne’s and my late father Major...Read More

The Story of Major Ian Bessell-Browne MBE Ian Joseph Bessell-Browne was born into a military family in South Perth on 30 October 1910. His father Brigadier-General AJ Bessell-Browne served in the artillery in the Boer War, at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in WW1. Ian enlisted on 23 October 1939 with the rank of...Read More