Duvalovska Afrodita (Floga)
Afrodita Duvalovska is born in 1922 in the village Nestram, Kostur
region. In the Nazi occupation she was among the first and best members
of EPON in the village. At the beginning of 1944 she joined the ranks
of ELAS and fought heroically against the occupiers.
After the Varkiza agreement she was followed. She joined DAG as early
as September 1046. She completed officer school at the DAG headquarters.
She was one of the best students at the school and courageously faced
the enemy operations in Agrafa as well as all of the trials of battle
- hunger, cold. She participated in the great march of the headquarters
from Roumelia - Gramos - Vich. She was a tireless fighter and was regularly
in battle, usually in the front lines.
She took part in the great battles of Gramos in 1948 as a sub-lieutenant,
unit commander and defended the Gorusa-Haros hills. Her unit fought
courageously and successfully handled the attacks from the numerous
enemy. She was often in the front line and with a machine gun in her
hands. She was cool-headed and decisive. She liked and respected the
fighters and her authority was highly regarded by them.
![](assets/Afrodita_Duvalovska_(Floga).jpg)
She was wounded in the leg at the great attack in Haros. The commander
of the unit allocated her a comrade to take her to the station for first
aid. She would not agree to go.
"Why are you still here?" the captain asked her. She answered, "How
can I escape? What will happen with the leadership?"
And only when the captain persuaded her that the leadership would be
taken care of and would continue the battle, did she set off to the
station for first aid.
Afrodita fought in all battles passionately with her youthful fire.
She was promoted to unit commissar and it was in that post that she
was killed on 11 November 1948 at the battle of Bikovik - Vich.
M Charas
From: For Sacred National Freedom: Portraits Of Fallen Freedom
Fighters
© 2009
Return to Index
For Sacred National Freedom: Portraits Of Fallen Freedom Fighters