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Nicholas Geoffrey Lamprière Hammond was a..

Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, CBE, DSO, FBA (15 November 1907 – 24 March 2001) was a British historian, geographer, classicist and an operative for.

  • Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, CBE, DSO, FBA (15 November 1907 – 24 March 2001) was a British historian, geographer, classicist and an operative for.
  • Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, CBE, DSO, FBA was a British historian, geographer, classicist and an operative for the British Special Operations Executive in occupied Greece during the Second World War. Hammond was seen as the leading expert.
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  • Professor of Greek University of Cambridge.

    •  Nicholas G. L. Hammond () 

    Nicholas Geoffrey Lamprière Hammond was a prominent Classical historian whose knowledge of Ancient Greece and Macedonia led him to a string of remarkable feats while assisting the Greek resistance during World War II.

     

    Born in Ayr, Scotland, Hammond received two degrees in Classics from the University of Cambridge.

    In , at the age of just twenty-two, he was elected fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He undertook extended walking trips through the undeveloped countryside of Epirus and Albania studying inscriptions at ancient ruins, memorizing the topography, mastering the Greek and Albanian languages and getting to know the local people.

    Such firsthand encounters established Hammond as an invaluable recruit for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), the organization tasked by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to undermine the Germans in occupied countries through alliances with local resistance groups.