page_title: Archipelago Division
section_title: Battle of Skra
hierarchical_section_title: Archipelago Division / Macedonian front, 1917–1918 / Battle of Skra
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Dans Le Miroir n°250 15 Franchet d'Espérey décore le drapeau du 5eme regiment grec de la Division de l'Archipel. Elle participe de l'Armée Alliée d'Orient en Macédoine.
context_page_description: The Archipelago Division was an infantry division of Greece in World War I and the early stages of the Asia Minor Campaign.
context_section_description: On 20 October the division was moved east to the Polykastro–Goumenissa area, where it took over a front sector adjoining the Crete Division to its right. Along with the Serres Division, these formed the "National Defence Army Corps" under Major General Emmanouil Zymvrakakis, although operationally the Greek divisions came under the 1st Group of Divisions, under Auguste Clément Gérôme, commander of the French 122nd Infantry Division. 
  The division held this sector until May 1918, when it participated in the Battle of Skra-di-Legen. The Archipelago Division with its 5th and 6th regiments (Lt. Colonels Efthymios Tsimikalis and Konstantinos Exarchakis respectively), reinforced with the 1st Serres Regiment (Lt. Colonel Georgios Kondylis), took the brunt of the attack on the fortified positions of Skra on 16–18 May 1918, aided on its flanks by attacks from the Crete and Serres divisions. 
  Following its victory at Skra, the Archipelago Division was withdrawn to the village of Karpi near Goumenissa on 20 May for rest. On 10 July it replaced the Crete Division at the front in the Loumnitsa sector, again under the 1st Group of Divisions under Philippe Henri Joseph d'Anselme. The division took over the 29th Infantry Regiment as the third divisional regiment, since the 4th Archipelago Regiment remained in southern Greece assigned to internal security duties.
caption: Allied commander-in-chief Louis Franchet d'Espérey decorates the battle flag of the 5th Archipelago Regiment in 1918, with the divisional commander Dimitrios Ioannou to his left
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