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Doiran Memorial

Doiran Memorial

📍 Doirani, Δοϊράνη, Grecia

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The Doiran Memorial stands near Doiran Military Cemetery, which is situated in the north of Greece close to the Macedonia border and near the south-east shore of Lake Doiran. It is approximately 3 kilometres north west of Drossato village behind and to the west of Doirani village and is reached via a farm track. From Thessaloniki take the Thessaloniki – Kilkis National Road north for approximately 70 km following the directions for the town of Kilkis until you come to a crossroads with the town of Drossato on your right. Turn left at this crossroads following the signs for Doirani Village/Lake and Customs. Continue on this road for approximately 2 km where you shall pick up the CWGC signs on the outskirts of the village that shall lead you around the village of Doirani and to Doiran Military cemetery. Continue past the cemetery for approximately 1 km following the CWGC signs up a rough track until you arrive at the Memorial. The Memorial stands on what was called Colonial Hill, and can be seen from a distance and is a landmark. The DOIRAN MEMORIAL stands roughly in the centre of the line occupied for two years by the Allies in Macedonia, but close to the western end, which was held by Commonwealth forces. It marks the scene of the fierce fighting of 1917-1918, which caused the majority of the Commonwealth battle casualties. From October 1915 to the end of November 1918, the British Salonika Force suffered some 2,800 deaths in action, 1,400 from wounds and 4,200 from sickness. The campaign afforded few successes for the Allies, and none of any importance until the last two months. The action of the Commonwealth force was hampered throughout by widespread and unavoidable sickness and by continual diplomatic and personal differences with neutrals or Allies. On one front there was a wide malarial river valley and on the other, difficult mountain ranges, and many of the roads and railways it required had to be specially constructed. The memorial serves the dual purpose of Battle Memorial of the British Salonika Force (for which a large sum of money was subscribed by the officers and men of that force), and place of commemoration for more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen who died in Macedonia and whose graves are not known. The memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer with sculpture by Walter Gilbert. It was unveiled by Sir George Macdonogh on 25 September 1926. The memorial stands near DOIRAN MILITARY CEMETERY. The cemetery (originally known as Colonial Hill Cemetery No.2) was formed at the end of 1916 as a cemetery for the Doiran front. The graves are almost entirely those of officers and men of the 22nd and 26th Divisions and largely reflect the fighting of April and May 1917 (the attacks on the Petit-Couronne), and 18-19 September 1918 (the attacks on Pip Ridge and the Grand-Couronne). In October and November 1918, after the final advance, a few burials were added by the 25th Casualty Clearing Station. After the Armistice, graves were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields and from some small burial grounds, the most important of which was Strumnitza British Military Cemetery, north-west of Doiran, made by the 40th Casualty Clearing Station in October and November 1918. The cemetery now contains 1,338 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 449 of them unidentified. There are also 45 Greek and one French war graves.

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Deceased (2.167)

HC

Henry Charles Terry

1915

Doiran Memorial

WR

William Riley Bowler

1917

Doiran Memorial

FV

Frederick Victor Ballinger

1887 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

WJ

William John Sansom

1918

Doiran Memorial

Tom W Jones

Tom W Jones

1894 – 1918

Doiran Memorial

Charles Russell Legg

Charles Russell Legg

1895 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

DG

D G Morris

1918

Doiran Memorial

William Victor Hobbs

William Victor Hobbs

1891 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

Henry Frederick Wilkes

Henry Frederick Wilkes

1918

Doiran Memorial

AC

Alfred Creed

1916

Doiran Memorial

FG

F G Redrup

1916

Doiran Memorial

Owen Rodgers

Owen Rodgers

1882 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

Charles Page

Charles Page

1917

Doiran Memorial

HM

Hugh MacIntyre

1917

Doiran Memorial

Arthur Dunn

Arthur Dunn

1894 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

TD

Thomas Dowdeswell

1917

Doiran Memorial

AW

A W Warner

1917

Doiran Memorial

E Sanderson

E Sanderson

1917

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John Fitzgerald

John Fitzgerald

1915

Doiran Memorial

William Addison

William Addison

1881 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

JC

J Cullen

1915

Doiran Memorial

HP

H Parkyn

1918

Doiran Memorial

JG

J Gorman

1918

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ET

E T Williams

1918

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DK

David Kelly

1918

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JM

J Murphy

1917

Doiran Memorial

Ernest George Phillips

Ernest George Phillips

1918

Doiran Memorial

Harold Lawrence Mills

Harold Lawrence Mills

1892 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

George Steenson

George Steenson

1915

Doiran Memorial

HJ

H J Perks

1917

Doiran Memorial

Ralph Neville Cullen

Ralph Neville Cullen

1885 – 1915

Doiran Memorial

James Walter Rudd

James Walter Rudd

1916

Doiran Memorial

JM

John Marshall Mitchell

1917

Doiran Memorial

TM

T Minton

1916

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ES

E Smith

1917

Doiran Memorial

CP

Cyril Percival Baker

1917

Doiran Memorial

CH

Charles Henry Daniels

1916

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HG

Henry George Fleet

1917

Doiran Memorial

EE

Edgar Edward Mills

1916

Doiran Memorial

JM

James Mitchell Haldane

1918

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TS

Thomas Summers

1917

Doiran Memorial

EG

Ernest Griffiths

1917

Doiran Memorial

AG

A G Pavlides

1918

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HC

H C Oxen

1915

Doiran Memorial

William Thomas Bysouth

William Thomas Bysouth

1915

Doiran Memorial

Alfred Kable

Alfred Kable

1917

Doiran Memorial

Percy William Hatton

Percy William Hatton

1917

Doiran Memorial

GL

G Lumsden

1917

Doiran Memorial

JT

John Thomas Lowe

1918

Doiran Memorial

Walter Henry Fennell

Walter Henry Fennell

1897 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

Bernard Arkins

Bernard Arkins

1888 – 1915

Doiran Memorial

SJ

Sidney James Reynish

1916

Doiran Memorial

John Carter

John Carter

1897 – 1916

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Primrose McConnell

Primrose McConnell

1890 – 1918

Doiran Memorial

RB

Robert Barclay Marshall

1894 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

Siah Millington

Siah Millington

1916

Doiran Memorial

CA

Charles Alfred Jennings

1917

Doiran Memorial

Henry George Bird

Henry George Bird

1915

Doiran Memorial

HJ

H J Skudder

1916

Doiran Memorial

CH

C Hale

1915

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