For three years, Constantine's second son,
Alexander, was king of Greece, until his early death from an infection due to a monkey bite. Constantine was
restored to the throne, and Andrew was once again reinstated in the army, this time as a major-general. The family took up residence at Mon Repos. Andrew was given command of the
II Army Corps during the
Battle of the Sakarya, which effectively halted the Greek advance in the
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). Andrew had little respect for his superior officers, whom he considered incompetent. He was ordered to attack the Turkish positions, which he considered a desperate move little short "of ill-concealed panic". Refusing to put his men in undue danger (suffering lack of food and ammunition), Andrew followed his own battle plan, much to the dismay of the commanding general,
Anastasios Papoulas. Relieved of his chief of staff, and given a dressing-down by Papoulas, in September Andrew asked to be removed from command but Papoulas refused. Andrew's troops were forced to retreat. He was placed on leave for two months, until he was transferred to the Supreme Army Council. In March 1922, he was appointed as commander of the
V Army Corps in
Epirus and the
Ionian Islands. Papoulas was replaced by General
Georgios Hatzianestis. The
Greek defeat in Asia Minor in August 1922 led to the
11 September 1922 Revolution, during which Andrew was arrested, court-martialed, and found guilty of "disobeying an order" and "acting on his own initiative" during the battle of the previous year. Many defendants in
the treason trials that followed the coup were shot, including Hatzianestis and five senior politicians. British diplomats assumed that Andrew was also in mortal danger. Andrew, though spared, was banished for life and his family fled into exile aboard a British cruiser,
HMS Calypso. The family settled at
Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris, in a small house lent to them by Andrew's wealthy sister-in-law,
Princess George of Greece. He and his family were stripped of their Greek nationality, and travelled under Danish passports. In 1930, Andrew published a book entitled
Towards Disaster: The Greek Army in Asia Minor in 1921, in which he defended his actions during the Battle of the Sakarya, but he essentially lived a life of enforced retirement, despite only being in his forties. During their time in exile the family became more and more dispersed. Alice suffered a
nervous breakdown and was institutionalised in Switzerland. Their daughters married and settled in
Germany, separated from Andrew, and Philip was sent to school in Britain, where he was brought up by his mother's British relatives. Andrew went to live in the South of France. On the French Riviera, Andrew lived in a small apartment, or hotel rooms, or on board a yacht with Countess
Andrée de La Bigne. His marriage to Alice was effectively over, and after her recovery and release, she returned to Greece. In 1936, his sentence of exile was quashed by emergency laws, which also restored land and annuities to the King. Andrew returned to Greece for a brief visit that May. The following year, his pregnant daughter Cecilie, his son-in-law and two of his grandchildren were killed in
an air accident at Ostend; he travelled to London to meet up with his sixteen-year-old son
Prince Philip and they went together to Darmstadt where he met Alice for the first time in six years at the funeral. During
World War II, he found himself essentially trapped in
Vichy France, while his son, Prince Philip, fought on the side of the British. They were unable to see or even correspond with one another. Andrew's three surviving sons-in-law fought on the German side:
Prince Christoph of Hesse was a member of the
Nazi Party and the
Waffen-SS;
Berthold, Margrave of Baden, was invalided out of the
Wehrmacht in 1940 after an injury in France;
Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg served on the Eastern Front and was dismissed after the
20 July plot. For five years, Andrew saw neither his wife nor his son. ==Death and burial==