Career
Born in the Cretan village of Asi Gonia in 1882, as a young man he took part in paramilitary activities against Turkish, Bulgarian and Romanian interests during the Macedonian Struggle, with great success. Later, during the Balkan Wars, he organized the liberation of the island of Samos (then still under Ottoman rule). In 1915, he organized a volunteer corps of Cretans that fought for France in Alsace.
After Greece"s entry into World War I he fought in the Macedonian Front in 1917-1918.
However, this was never proven in court. During the Axis occupation of Greece he fled to the Middle East and joined the forces of the Greek government-in-exile.
During the Greek Civil War, Gyparis was active in his home island of Crete, fighting against the communists. He died in 1966. Georgios Papandreou praised him as a fighter for democracy on the side of Venizelos.