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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)

JM

James McNeela

1875 – 1915

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Charles Lowe

Charles Lowe

1918

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AR

Aubrey Rudd

1895 – 1917

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JM

Joseph Miller

1918

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HW

Herbert Wade

1917

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AM

Alexander McKay

1890 – 1918

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CT

Charles Thomas Randall

1917

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JE

Joseph Edward Lloyd

1916

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GH

George Henry Twyman

1916

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KH

Kenneth Hale Bailey

1896 – 1917

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AP

Arthur Pilbeam

1915

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JF

James Frederick Winslow

1917

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BS

Benjamin Shaw

1918

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Francis Samuel Barton

Francis Samuel Barton

1896 – 1917

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Herbert Law

Herbert Law

1918

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Thomas Lindsay Henshilwood

Thomas Lindsay Henshilwood

1917

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TF

Timothy Farrell

1915

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JT

John Tasker

1916

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MO

Michael O'Neil

1916

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AJ

Alfred John James

1917

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JP

J Pruden

1917

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JW

Joseph Walsh

1915

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Percy Herbert Pill

Percy Herbert Pill

1881 – 1917

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Reginald Nelson Ludlow

Reginald Nelson Ludlow

1917

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AR

Arthur Richard Mason

1918

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P Bryant

P Bryant

1881 – 1915

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George Harold Parker

George Harold Parker

1915

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AJ

Albert Jewell

1918

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WP

William Pyke

1916

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HA

Howard A. E. Lane

1916

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F Hulme

F Hulme

1916

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IV

Ivor Victor Jones

1917

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GH

George Henry “George Harry” Williamson

1883 – 1918

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Ernest Albert Edwards

Ernest Albert Edwards

1918

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GL

G Little

1917

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EG

Emyr Griffith Jones

1918

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Henry Parker

Henry Parker

1917

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CN

Charles Neville Crawshaw

1918

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RK

R King

1918

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F Phillips

F Phillips

1915

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RW

Robert William Drew

1894 – 1915

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AW

Archibald Wilson

1917

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AE

Arthur Ernest Evans

1917

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NM

Neill McLean

1918

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John Henry Clifton

John Henry Clifton

1895 – 1917

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Joseph Showler

Joseph Showler

1895 – 1917

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WG

W Green

1916

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EG

Edward Gardener

1915

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William Arthur Matthews

William Arthur Matthews

1917

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Albert Allerton

Albert Allerton

1884 – 1915

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TJ

Thomas John Richards

1917

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FG

Francis Gallagher

1890 – 1916

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Henry Sidney Beaven

Henry Sidney Beaven

1884 – 1917

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JH

James Hanson

1891 – 1918

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FA

Frederick Albert Glover

1879 – 1916

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PK

Patrick Kenny

1916

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Joseph Henry Beeman

Joseph Henry Beeman

1918

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RB

Robert Bailey

1876 – 1917

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PA

Percy Alexander Crone

1916

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WH

William Horace Williams

1917

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