Ignazio Nicolas Dracopoli (6 December 1887 – 7 January 1923) was an Anglo-French cartographer and explorer.
He joined the Royal Geographical Society shortly after, where he studied map surveying and became the first European to across the Lorian Swamp, earning him the Back Award in 1914.
[1] He was deemed unfit for major action in the First World War due to illness sustained while travelling in Jubaland, but he was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps, serving firstly in England before serving in Egypt.
[4] Dracopoli was made an MBE in October 1919, for services rendered during the war.
[5] His health had never fully recovered from the illness that afflicted him during his Jubaland expedition, with him dying at Bishop's Stortford in May 1923.