Constantine Pericles Dracoulis · In memoriam
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Constantine Pericles Dracoulis
1911 – 1943 · 32 years
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT C. P. DRACOULIS ROYAL AIR FORCE 10TH MAY 1943 AGE 32 (Greek text translation): “Now the deeds of the best could never be or have been other than the fairest” Timaeus, Plato
Service number: 104839 The only non-British subject to be admitted to the RAF. Died of wounds, in May, 1943, Constantine Dracoulis, Flying Officer, R.A.F. His contemporaries will remember him as a vigorous and decisive personality. He left school younger than most boys to join the family business. Here his duties took him often to Greece, and his leisure was largely devoted to developing friendly relations between the countries of his birth and his adoption. At the end he was proud to be the only non-British subject to be admitted to the Royal Air Force. Son of Pericles Constantine Dracoulis and Olga Dracoulis, of Highgate, Middlesex.
