FredG wrote:It says it's a propaganda myth.
Definately. Like a lot of war time reporting..it don´t add up.
This site
https://sarantakos.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/koukidis/ gives a complete breakdown ,including that no Person named Konstantinos Koukidis existed in The greek military at the time* but a Journalist with the same(similar) Name did**, and the daily mail journo who wrote the Piece sent if from cairo.*** with no witness testimoneys.
Using Google translate.
*
Do we need more evidence from the testimony of the director of the Army History Director Kakoudakis on a TV show in 2000 that "We found that there was not a soldier named Koukedis Konstantinos at that time. We sent documents to all units, to the registry, everywhere. We went to Plaka to ask for information. Is there no real testimony to date? "
Bit odd for an elite unit to miss his Name off the records (?)
**
Konstantinos Koukidis (written and Koukkidis). Born in East Thrace in 1891, he worked in large newspapers (Elefthero Vima, Athenian News, Kathimerini) and had been a chronicler in Paris. In a totally irrelevant forum, a seemingly unpardonable one, but I do not know how much substantiated explanation: in the quake, Koukidis was late to go to his newspaper and some released the reputation that he had committed suicide by falling from the Acropolis, a reputation that was enriched and modified later on.
***
But there is no need to go that far: it is equally possible that the Englishman who made the article in Cairo simply gave his non-existent hero the first Greek real name he had in mind, a well-known journalist of that time; however, the actual Koukidis lived, In 1946, he published a book on Occupation Justice and died an old man in 1974
Did the Evzones even guard the acropolis at the time??