Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameDr Photinos (Nicolas) Panas
Birth30 Jan 1832, Cephalonia, Greece/Hellenes
Death6 Jan 1903, Roissy, France
OccupationPhysician. Professor.
OriginCephalonia, Greece.
Note 1Surgeon and opthalmologist, founded the opthalmic department at the Hôtel Dieu de Paris.
FatherNicolas PANAS (?-?)
Marriage9 Nov 1867, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England
SpouseMaria (Xenophon) Balli, 1C3R
Birth25 Jan 1850, Champion Place, Upper Clapton, Hackney, London, England
Death1 Feb 1930, Paris, France
Baptism16 Jun 1850, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England
Residence90 Rue Malakoff, Paris 16e, France
Marr. WitnessConstantine Geralopoulos and Fanny Zarifi.
God-parentsJohn Kessisoglu.
Note 1Or Mary. Croix de Guerre avec Palmes (1915). Palmes-en-Or-du Service de Santé. Senior (major) nursing officer in the Société de Secours aux Blessés Militaires. She worked in Epirus, Greece, during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) with the French Red Cross.
Note 2In WWl (1914-1918) she was first with the 7è Armée (French) and then the Armée du Nord at Furnes Hospital. Finally she worked with the mobile operating unit of Professor Duval.
Note 3At the end of the war she became Président Directrice de la Société de Secours aux Blessés Militaires at Montdidier.
Note 4In Nov 1915 she was in charge of the “Mlles d’Haussonville, Murat, Wasender, Ansart, [Fanny] Kessisoglu”, all cited for heroism.
Note 5Her personal archives were acquired by her valet, Georges Lecomte, whose descendants gave them to ‘Mémoires de la Somme, Archives’ in 2018.
FlagsBoscovic, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Scanavi
FatherXenophon Elias (Elias) Balli (~1814-1877)
MotherCalliope (Theodore) Kessisoglu ! (~1832-1892)