Kimon Digenis

World War I Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) Kimon Digenis (Greek: Κίμων Διγενής) (c. 1871–1945) was a Hellenic Army officer who reached the rank of Major General.

He enrolled in the Hellenic Military Academy, and graduated in 1891 as a Second Lieutenant of the Artillery.

[1] During World War I, 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 the spring and summer of 1921.

In 1922, as Major General, he was in command of the II Army Corps.

[1] Following the Battle of Dumlupınar, 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.