Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos

Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos (1897-1989) was a Greek military figure of the 20th Century.

Tsakalotos was born in Preveza, Epirus, in 1897. At age 13 he left for Alexandria, Egypt, joining his elder brother. He returned to Greece and, in 1916, graduated Military School and was commissioned a junior officer.

Tsakalotos saw action in the Macedonian front during World War I and in Asia Minor during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).

At the outbreak of World War II, he was a colonel. He saw action in Epirus and Albania and, after Greek capitulation in April 1941 joined a resistance group. He managed to leave Greece in 1943 and join the Greek Armed forces in Egypt and eventually (September 1944) took part in the Battle of Rimini.