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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)

JW

John William Kingswood

1917

Doiran Memorial

HR

H Ruth

1916

Doiran Memorial

JC

J Collins

1916

Doiran Memorial

CF

Cuthbert Frederick Biggs

1896 – 1918

Doiran Memorial

AW

Albert Walter Beadles

1896 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

A Payne

A Payne

1915

Doiran Memorial

RM

R McCaughen

1915

Doiran Memorial

William Bowler

William Bowler

1918

Doiran Memorial

George Green

George Green

1917

Doiran Memorial

WN

Walter Notley

1918

Doiran Memorial

JH

Joseph Harriss

1917

Doiran Memorial

JR

John Rostern

1874 – 1916

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JG

J Gallagher

1882 – 1915

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SW

S White

1917

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Joseph Carcary

Joseph Carcary

1916

Doiran Memorial

JS

Jim Smith

1917

Doiran Memorial

Thomas Hampson

Thomas Hampson

1917

Doiran Memorial

WW

William Wilson

1917

Doiran Memorial

William Wilson

William Wilson

1917

Doiran Memorial

M MacDonald

M MacDonald

1916

Doiran Memorial

Arthur Reginald Clegg-Hill

Arthur Reginald Clegg-Hill

1877 – 1918

Doiran Memorial

Frank Knight

Frank Knight

1882 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

JE

John Ellis

1917

Doiran Memorial

HW

H Wasley

1917

Doiran Memorial

FD

Fredrick Devenport

1918

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GG

GIles Gaylard

1897 – 1916

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HH

Horace Howard Homer

1917

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Donald McDougall

Donald McDougall

1918

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DM

David Maxwell

1916

Doiran Memorial

AM

Alexander McLelland

1918

Doiran Memorial

GA

George Arther Turtle

1917

Doiran Memorial

RM

R Murphy

1917

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HR

Harry Rogerson

1916

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DH

David Horne

1915

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MK

Morris Kew Stokes

1917

Doiran Memorial

JM

John McGregor

1917

Doiran Memorial

Harold William Budden

Harold William Budden

1891 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

JS

Joseph Spriggs

1917

Doiran Memorial

Ernest Piggott

Ernest Piggott

1880 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

DK

D Kennedy

1917

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MR

M Ryan

1915

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FW

F W Oakley

1919

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HH

Harry Haynes Hall

1916

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TW

Thomas Wallace Wall Weston

1917

Doiran Memorial

JR

Joseph Rosenberg

1917

Doiran Memorial

HW

Harold Williams

1917

Doiran Memorial

TM

Thomas Maher

1917

Doiran Memorial

BS

Bernard Samuel Abrahall

1895 – 1918

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CC

C Crossley

1917

Doiran Memorial

TB

Thomas Britland

1918

Doiran Memorial

FO

Frank Ockerby

1918

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JD

J Deakin

1916

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JW

James William Teasdale

1915

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PN

Patrick Nolan

1915

Doiran Memorial

TB

Thomas Bell

1915

Doiran Memorial

Charles Stewart

Charles Stewart

1887 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

PN

Peter Neville

1917

Doiran Memorial

AO

A O Holt

1916

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AE

Alfred Edmondson

1918

Doiran Memorial

John Morrish

John Morrish

1917

Doiran Memorial

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