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==Eligibility==
The Medal for the War of 1940–1941 was instituted by Royal Decree of August 19th 1947 to recognize the actions of the Royal Greek Armed Forces who took part in the war efforts from the outbreak of the war in Greece in 1940 until the fall of Crete in 1941 (it covers the campaigns in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, Thrace and Crete.)


The medal was also awarded to foreign forces that fought on Greek soil.


==Description==
The medal can either be of bronze or of gilt. The riband is of a dark blue color with a pale blue center stripe and two narrow white edge stripes. Some variations have a more grey stripe in the center. Every recipient receives a certificate with the recipients name.

The obverse bears the head of King George II, surrounded with a laurel wreath. The wreath is at the top joined by a crown. In 1983 the obverse was changed because of the changing of Greece from a kingdom to a republic in 1974. From 1983 the obverse shows a headless winged female figure above the inscription “1940-41”. The figure is surrounded by a laurel wreath, at the top joined by the Greek word for “Greece”.

The reverse originally had a Greek inscription meaning “1940-41 Eprius, Albania, Macedonia, Thrace, Crete” for Army medals, and “1940-41 Aegean, Ionian, Myrtoum, Adriatic” for Navy medals. From 1983 the “1940-41” was removed but the rest remained.

===Eligible Locals===
* [[Walter Leonard Axford]]
* [[Geoffrey Gordon Benson]]
* [[Harry Wallace Benson]]                 POW Crete
* [[Raymond Eric Gerard Bennett]]
* [[Jack Cameron]]
* [[Edward Charles (Ted) Fancote]]         POW Grete
* [[William Randall Foggon]]               POW Greece
* [[George Garratt]]                       POW Crete
* [[Stanley Hubert Hancock]]
* [[Kevin James Higgins]]                  POW Greece
* [[Andrew David Johnson]]                 POW Crete 
* [[William James Johnson]]                POW Crete 
* † [[Kenneth Myers Kroenert]]             POW Crete , later died in captivity              
* † [[Francis James Marchant]]
* [[Arthur Mitchell]]
* [[Maurice Gerard O'Brien]]               POW Crete
* † [[Douglas Windsor Parkin]]     
* † [[Mervyn Roy Parkin]]                  KIA Greece
* [[Charles Amos George Victor Petersen]]  POW Crete
* [[James Percy Ray]]                      POW Crete
* † [[Robert Summerfield]]                 KIA Crete
* [[Walter Cyril Tomlinson]]
* [[William George Ward]]

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