31 August to 2 September 1922
Dumlupınar: the surrender of the Trikoupis group
The Trikoupis group splits into three columns. One of 2,000 men, mostly from the 12th Division, surrenders to Turkish cavalry on the evening of 1 September. Trikoupis surrenders with 5,000 to 6,000 men at 17.00 on 2 September, and a third column of 5,000 slips out of the ring with no fighting value left. Frangou's group, its left flank breached late on 30 August, retreats towards Banaz.
General Kimon Digenis and his soldiers are led away by Turkish troops after their surrender, 1922Wikimedia Commons, unknown author, Public domain (General Digenis POW 1922.jpg)
Trikoupis and General Digenis, commander of the Greek II Corps, are brought before Mustafa Kemal. By 7 September the Greek army has lost 50,000 men, 35,000 killed or wounded and 15,000 captured. Between 26 August and 9 September the Turkish army loses 13,476.
Sources
- Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919–1922 (1973).
- Andrew Mango, Atatürk (1999).
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