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where he won the Cooper Prize and was a school prefect. He shared the Burke Prize for highest general proficiency in his school in 1926 and in that year achieved first class honours in English, Latin and Greek.
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notes his finest achievement was using his influence to keep peace between various partisan groups and is credited with saving the island from the turmoil experienced on the mainland during the
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on 31 March 1955, twelve days before his 44th birthday. He was survived by his wife and two children, as well as, among other relatives, his father.
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He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, on 12 April 1911. His father was Thomas Dunbabin (1883–1973), a distinguished journalist and a contributor to
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A transcription of Dunbabin’s own account of his time on Crete was prepared by his nephew and published (in Greek and English) in 2015 by the
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he travelled widely to examine artefacts indicating oriental influence on Greek culture of the 7th century. This resulted in his book,
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The Western Greeks : the history of Sicily and south Italy from the foundation of the Greek colonies to 480 B.C.
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The Western Greeks; The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Colonies to 480 B.C.
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He returned to Oxford after the war where in 1945 he became a Reader in classical archaeology under
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in 1936 when he became engaged to Adelaide Doreen Delacour, the daughter of the
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https://neoskosmos.com/en/2016/05/25/features/an-archaeologist-at-war/
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Holmes, O.B.E.. M.C.., F.R.G.S., Charles (1 November 195).
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origin, as well as a renowned WWII soldier in Crete.
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Tasmanian
Walkabout
Sydney Church of England Grammar School
University of Sydney
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
All Souls College
British School of Archaeology at Athens
Bishop of Knaresborough
World War II
SOE
Crete
resistance
DSO
Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Pendlebury
Manolis Paterakis
Sandy Rendel
Dennis Ciclitira
capture of General Heinrich Kreipe
Greek Civil War
Society of Cretan Historical Studies
Sir John Beazley
Leverhulme Research Follow

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