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Allegiance
  
Greece

Service/branch
  
Hellenic Army

Name
  
Kimon Digenis

Rank
  
Major General

Years of service
  
1891–1922


Kimon Digenis

Battles/wars
  
Greco-Turkish War of 1897, Balkan Wars, Macedonian Front, Asia Minor Campaign

Battles and wars
  
Greco-Turkish War, Balkan Wars, Macedonian Front

Kimon Digenis (Greek: Κίμων Διγενής) (1871 - 1945) was a Greek Army officer who reached the rank of Major General.

He was born in Kimolos in 1871. He enrolled in the Hellenic Army Academy, and graduated in 1891 as a Second Lieutenant of the Artillery. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, the Balkan Wars, the Macedonian Front of World War I and the Asia Minor Campaign. During the latter, after the electoral defeat of the Liberal Party in November 1920 he replaced the Venizelist Colonel Konstantinos Manetas as commander of the 13th Infantry Division and commanded it in the operations of spring and summer 1921. In 1922, as Major General, he was in command of the II Army Corps. Following the Greek defeat, he became a Prisoner of War in Asia Minor in August 1922 and after a large-scale Army revolt that toppled the royalist government, he was dismissed from the army. He died in Athens in year 1945.

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