Georgios Panas

Georgios Panas (Greek: Γεώργιος Πανάς; Kranio, Cephalonia, 1 January 1876 – Athens, 6 August 1939) was a senior Greek Navy officer who fought in the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, World War I, and the Asia Minor Campaign, and served as Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff in 1928–31, and briefly minister in the Alexandros Othonaios emergency government in March 1933.

[2] In the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 he was executive officer on the torpedo boat Aspis, with which he participated in the capture of Lesbos (November 1912), the Battle of Lemnos (5 January 1913) and the operations of the Ionian Squadron (February 1913).

He was appointed captain of the ironclad Hydra and commander of the provisional government's naval academy, which was established on board the vessel.

[2] He served in the early stages of the Asia Minor Campaign as captain of the battleship Limnos (1919–20), and was appointed naval attaché at the Greek embassy in London.

[2] After the Greek defeat in the Asia Minor Campaign and the outbreak of the 11 September 1922 Revolution, on 7 October 1922 he was reinstated in active service, resuming his post as naval attaché in London until 1925.

[2] In March 1933 he was a member of the emergency military government under Lt. General Alexandros Othonaios, that assumed power to counter the abortive coup attempt led by Nikolaos Plastiras.