into Heraklion but were driven out by regular Greek and British troops and by islanders armed with assorted weapons. On 21 May 1941, when German troops took over Heraklion, Pendlebury slipped away with his Cretan friends heading for Krousonas, the village of Kapetanios Satanas, which was some to the southwest. They had the intention of launching a counterattack, but on the way there Pendlebury left the vehicle to open fire on some German troops, who fired back. Some Stukas came over and Pendlebury was wounded in the chest. Aristea Drossoulakis took him into her nearby cottage and he was laid on a bed. The cottage was overrun and a German doctor treated him chivalrously, dressing his wounds; he was later given an injection. The next day Pendlebury had been changed into a clean shirt. The Germans were setting up a gun position nearby and a fresh party of paratroopers came by. They found Pendlebury who had lost his dog tags and was wearing a Greek shirt. As he was out of uniform and could not prove that he was a soldier, he was put against a wall outside the cottage and shot dead. Epilogue Captain Pendlebury was buried nearby but later reburied outside the western gate of Heraklion. He now lies in the Suda Bay War Cemetery maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (Grave reference 10.E.13). The epitaph "He has outsoared the shadow of our night" is a quotation from the 352nd line of "Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. He is also commemorated on the Trumpington War Memorial and on his wife's headstone in the churchyard at Trumpington, a village on the southern outskirts of Cambridge. Works by Pendlebury 1948 John Pendlebury in Crete. Cambridge: University Press. (Published privately after Pendlebury's death – with appreciations by Nicholas Hammond and Tom Dunbabin). References Bibliography Antony Beevor - Crete, the Battle and the Resistance (includes info about Pendlebury's wartime exploits) 1904 births 1941 deaths Military personnel from London Archaeologists from London British Egyptologists British Army personnel killed in World War II Executed spies British Special Operations Executive personnel People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Cretan Resistance Minoan archaeologists British people executed by Nazi Germany People executed by Nazi Germany by firing squad Executed people from London British Army General List officers Burials at Suda Bay War Cemetery