About Leonidas Paraskevopoulos
Leonidas Paraskevopoulos was a Greek military officer and politician. He played a major role in Greece's war effort during the First World War, and was the commander-in-chief of the Army of Asia Minor during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). In his later life, he was a member of the Greek Senate and served as its speaker in 1930–32. He was awarded Serbian Order of the White Eagle. In World War I, Paraskevopoulos became commander of I Army Corps on the Strymon sector on the eastern flank of the Macedonian front in 1917–18, before being appointed commander-in-chief of the Greek Army in October 1918.
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