A meeting of historical significance took place today with the Deputy Mayor of Elios Pronnoi and Tourism of the Municipality of Argostoli, Nikos Kourkoumelis, at the Municipal Town Hall of Poros, Kefalonia!
Retired British policeman and former Royal Navy Officer, Stuart Perry, contacted me regarding the replacement of a laminated poster that was lost due to strong winds. This poster, a tribute by the British, was at the Memorial of the Submarine Perseus in Sarakiniko, Poros, Kefalonia, dedicated to a sailor who died when the historic British Submarine sank due to an Italian mine on December 6, 1941, near the Cape of Mounta in our Kefalonia!
More specifically, the retired policeman considered it historically appropriate to use his detective skills to identify from a photograph of the lost poster, Dianne Thomson (a descendant and specifically the niece of the sailor who was lost on the Submarine Perseus, Charles Cranston Peacock) so that he could restore it with a new, better poster! This indeed happened after several months of detective work on the internet. The poster was replaced these days during his vacation in Poros by himself!
Finally, our Kefalonia enthusiast Stuart Perry (as he has visited our island 34 times, especially Skala) with my mediation met with Deputy Mayor of Elios Pronnoi, Nikos Kourkoumelis, to whom he delivered a copy of the new, better-laminated poster, in case it is lost again, and asked for a road sign to be made again for the Submarine Perseus. Nikos Kourkoumelis gladly promised to do these things!
Spiros Kagadis
Will there be a copy of this & more information at the Ionian Aquariumin Lixouri?
ReplyDeleteHello there!!!! I don't think so... However, they are welcome to publish my article etc if they so wish!!!
ReplyDeleteWell why not contact them? You're the author so it's your permission that's needed. Given the displays there I'm sure they'd be interested! :-)
Delete