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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)

RH

Reginald Hugo Catchpole Andrews

1886 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

JS

J Spence

1917

Doiran Memorial

AE

Albert Edward Baker

1898 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

JR

James Redpath Cochrane

1897 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

HG

Herbert Griffiths

1917

Doiran Memorial

GH

George Herbert Turville

1915

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AG

A Graham

1916

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WA

William Arthur Tabinor

1917

Doiran Memorial

HH

H Holme

1918

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WI

Wilfred Issell Partridge

1892 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

AS

Allen Sidney Kilby

1917

Doiran Memorial

JT

James Temple Robinson

1896 – 1915

Doiran Memorial

FC

F Clay

1917

Doiran Memorial

JP

John Patrick Gordon

1915

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DW

Donald Walker Borthwick

1898 – 1916

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HW

H Wellens

1917

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JS

James Shepherd Younger

1897 – 1917

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Herbert Matteri

Herbert Matteri

1916

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LP

Lancelot Proctor Dawbarn

1880 – 1917

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LS

Leonard Stubbs

1918

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Horace Brockbank Thompson

Horace Brockbank Thompson

1890 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT SECOND LIEUT THOMPSON H.B.

Fred Willcox

Fred Willcox

1894 – 1917

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WH

W Helms

1917

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A C Swain

A C Swain

1917

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WW

William Wiggins

1917

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EF

Edmond Fred Palmer

1917

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Thomas Seymour

Thomas Seymour

1918

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SL

Samuel Lloyd

1918

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JT

John Trippier

1915

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AM

A McKenna

1917

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WJ

W Jones

1916

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Albert Eli Street

Albert Eli Street

1889 – 1917

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WH

William Hamer

1890 – 1918

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Henry James Hack

Henry James Hack

1916

Doiran Memorial

JN

J N Howse

1918

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AG

Albert George Bullen

1917

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L McLaren

L McLaren

1916

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HJ

Horace John Murcott

1915

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AO

Alfred O'Neil

1918

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DM

D Miller

1917

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LM

Lendrick McMaster

1889 – 1918

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John McIntyre

John McIntyre

1917

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John James Bellamy

John James Bellamy

1884 – 1917

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DG

D G Stuart

1916

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Arthur Moore

Arthur Moore

1917

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Ernest Webster

Ernest Webster

1893 – 1918

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Frank Augustus Young

Frank Augustus Young

1880 – 1917

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WJ

W J Hall

1917

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Evan Lloyd

Evan Lloyd

1918

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Fred Hallas

Fred Hallas

1916

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JS

John Steel Neilson

1917

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JD

J Davies

1918

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WT

William Tenney

1915

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JR

James Riach McKenzie

1916

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DS

D Simpson

1917

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Frank Joseph Ison

Frank Joseph Ison

1918

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MM

M McGinley

1916

Doiran Memorial

DK

David Knibbs

1917

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WB

Wilfred Brown

1918

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CF

C F Gower

1917

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