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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)

A Braithwaite

A Braithwaite

1916

Doiran Memorial

GH

George Henry Banner

1893 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

John Culshaw

John Culshaw

1894 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

AD

Alexander Duncan**

1877 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

HM

Hugh McMullin

1915

Doiran Memorial

FP

Fred Phoenix

1917

Doiran Memorial

EW

Ellis William Parry

1918

Doiran Memorial

JT

John Thomas Burden

1918

Doiran Memorial

JR

John Ratcliffe

1916

Doiran Memorial

John McGhee

John McGhee

1918

Doiran Memorial

TW

Thomas William Harrison

1916

Doiran Memorial

HH

Herbert Hampson

1918

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JB

John Barbour

1891 – 1916

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FE

Frederick Evans

1918

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Arthur Norman Hutchinson

Arthur Norman Hutchinson

1918

Doiran Memorial

AJ

A J Hancock

1916

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Wilfred Nelson Randall

Wilfred Nelson Randall

1897 – 1917

Doiran Memorial

FC

Frederick Charles Bowditch

1918

Doiran Memorial

GC

George Charles Dimes

1917

Doiran Memorial

J Moran

J Moran

1916

Doiran Memorial

AS

Alexander Simpson Thomson

1917

Doiran Memorial

FF

Frederick Finch

1917

Doiran Memorial

WT

William Thomas Chamberlain

1916

Doiran Memorial

RH

R Houghton

1918

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WH

W H Hallam

1916

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Leslie Harold Tovey

Leslie Harold Tovey

1898 – 1917

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JO

J Owens

1917

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FT

Fred Taylor

1916

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FG

Floyd Gillam

1888 – 1918

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CA

Charles Alexander Kelly

1918

Doiran Memorial

P Goodfellow

P Goodfellow

1918

Doiran Memorial

Ernest James Tucker

Ernest James Tucker

1918

Doiran Memorial

WG

W G Saunders

1916

Doiran Memorial

FM

Francis MacBrearty

1895 – 1915

Doiran Memorial

Richard George Wright

Richard George Wright

1915

Doiran Memorial

JC

John Clough Whitehead

1917

Doiran Memorial

WB

Walter Birchenough

1897 – 1918

Doiran Memorial

CC

C C Taylor

1918

Doiran Memorial

Joseph McLatchie

Joseph McLatchie

1917

Doiran Memorial

GS

Gilbert Smith

1915

Doiran Memorial

JR

John Robinson

1917

Doiran Memorial

Hubert Henry Lyster Richards

Hubert Henry Lyster Richards

1892 – 1915

Doiran Memorial

PM

Peter McMillan

1877 – 1918

Doiran Memorial

SH

Sydney Humphreys

1916

Doiran Memorial

RG

R Griffiths

1916

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WW

W Wellings

1916

Doiran Memorial

AR

Alexander Raymond Medcraft

1918

Doiran Memorial

FJ

Francis Joseph “Frank” Barley

1887 – 1915

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CJ

C J Brown

1890 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

EA

Ernest Albert Lee

1918

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RP

Rickard Pentleton Walker

1916

Doiran Memorial

MD

Michael Dolan

1915

Doiran Memorial

Stanley James

Stanley James

1916

Doiran Memorial

GF

George Frie Benskin

1888 – 1918

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GA

G A Sennett

1916

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Herman Hepner

Herman Hepner

1917

Doiran Memorial

RM

Robert McKenzie

1918

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JH

James Henry Tarrant

1917

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BA

Bertie Avis

1894 – 1916

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AF

Arthur Francis

1917

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