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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)

LT

Leonard Thomas

1917

Doiran Memorial

MM

M McGuckin

1917

Doiran Memorial

RE

Rupert Eustace Akers

1888 – 1916

Doiran Memorial

RT

R Thompson

1917

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AR

Aloysius Richard Hunt

1917

Doiran Memorial

CE

C E Howe

1917

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PL

P Lane

1915

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CH

C Hutley

1917

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WB

William Booth

1898 – 1918

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Tom Scruton

Tom Scruton

1886 – 1915

Doiran Memorial

Charles Bagwell

Charles Bagwell

1896 – 1917

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WH

William Herbert Burton

1917

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TR

T R Light

1918

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TP

Thomas Plumb

1918

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Alexander James Stewart Weir

Alexander James Stewart Weir

1900 – 1918

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RE

Richard Ernest Beardsell

1918

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Michael Digan

Michael Digan

1891 – 1915

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CONNAUGHT RANGERS 5297 M DIGAN

AD

A Darcey

1915

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Thomas Cook

Thomas Cook

1917

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TF

Timothy Feely

1873 – 1915

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JJ

Joseph Jonah Holmes

1917

Doiran Memorial

PB

Percy Bell

1895 – 1916

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TW

T Waring

1918

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Robert Sinclair Branson

Robert Sinclair Branson

1891 – 1917

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WJ

William John Cottell

1916

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BF

Booth Frederick Clarke

1898 – 1917

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AJ

Alfred James Annison

1896 – 1915

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WJ

Walter John Carro

1920

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Richard Clive McBryde Broun

Richard Clive McBryde Broun

1915

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TS

T Sadler

1917

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AL

Albert Llewelyn Williams

1917

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WC

William Cuff

1917

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Thomas North Sidwell

Thomas North Sidwell

1883 – 1917

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WB

William Brooks

1889 – 1916

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PC

Percival Clarke

1917

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TB

Thomas Barrett

1889 – 1916

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JH

John Harrington

1918

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David Jenkins

David Jenkins

1917

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AA

Alfred Arthur Priestley

1915

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ER

Edward Reavey

1916

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WG

William George Porter

1917

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DE

David Edgar Evans

1918

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John Thomas Read Proffitt

John Thomas Read Proffitt

1918

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Geoffrey Fyson

Geoffrey Fyson

1918

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WT

William Thomas Happs

1917

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GR

George Riley

1918

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HK

H King

1896 – 1915

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Robert Henry Halsall

Robert Henry Halsall

1882 – 1918

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Matthew Mathews

Matthew Mathews

1878 – 1915

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Charles Thomas Long

Charles Thomas Long

1917

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

1917

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EF

Eric Francis Sellars

1918

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JA

James Alfred Nicholes

1916

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Henry Carlton B. Brundle

Henry Carlton B. Brundle

1917

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JB

John Brassington

1918

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Terence Haddock

Terence Haddock

1918

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DS

David Smith

1917

Doiran Memorial

B Seaman

B Seaman

1917

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CW

Charles Wyatt Youles

1887 – 1917

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AG

Alexander Graham

1883 – 1918

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