Nikolaos Zafeiriou [SEP] place of death
Nikolaos Zafeiriou
Nikolaos Zafeiriou (; 1871 in Corinth – 1947 in Athens) was a Greek artillery officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.
Zafeiriou was born in Corinth in 1871. After studies in the Hellenic Army Academy, he was commissioned as an Artillery 2nd Lieutenant in 1894. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. At the outbreak of the First Balkan War he served in the staff of the Army of Epirus and later the 8th Infantry Division which was formed of it. After the Balkan
, authorised on 23 May the troops commanded by Colonel Nikolaos Zafeiriou to issue orders for the occupation of Aydın, Manisa and Turgutlu. The subject of the size of the territory to be occupied by Greek forces were to be governed by uncertainty until 2 June, when Commodore Maurice FitzMaurice from the Royal Navy was appointed to determine the limits of the occupation zone.
Background Inter-Allied Commission.
The principal source on the fighting and the massacres remains the Report of the Inter-Allied Commission of Inquiry of October 1919. This