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Doiran Military Cemetery

Doiran Military Cemetery

📍 Doirani, Δοϊράνη, Grecia

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Doiran Military Cemetery is situated in the north of Greece close to the Macedonia border and near the south-east shore of Lake Doiran. It is approximately 2 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 crossroad 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 the cemetery. The Doiran Memorial, is on what was called Colonial Hill, it can be seen from a distance and is clearly signposted. 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 took place from the 25th Casualty Clearing Station. After the Armistice, graves were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields and from by 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. DOIRAN MILITARY CEMETERY now contains 1,338 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 449 of them unidentified. There are also one French and 45 Greek war graves. The DOIRAN MEMORIAL, which stands near the cemetery, 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.

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Deceased (897)

H Richards

H Richards

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

David Thomas

David Thomas

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Louis Francis William Sweetzer

Louis Francis William Sweetzer

1897 – 1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

William Carter

William Carter

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

George Edward Excell

George Edward Excell

1896 – 1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

C H Ackerman

C H Ackerman

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

J W Lister

J W Lister

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

George Harry Nash

George Harry Nash

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Thomas White

Thomas White

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Bertram John Compton

Bertram John Compton

1893 – 1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Lance Corporal, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry.

Charles Hill Harrowing

Charles Hill Harrowing

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

John William Thompson

John William Thompson

1885 – 1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

W Newell

W Newell

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

John Turner

John Turner

1890 – 1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Samuel Allcock

Samuel Allcock

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

H Hurley

H Hurley

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Ernest Lowe

Ernest Lowe

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

William Lawson

William Lawson

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Henry Jay

Henry Jay

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

W Henderson

W Henderson

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

John Dunbar

John Dunbar

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

J Sewell

J Sewell

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Frederick Dyer

Frederick Dyer

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

James Robertson

James Robertson

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

W Cokayne

W Cokayne

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

George Cutmore

George Cutmore

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Matthew Barclay

Matthew Barclay

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Francis Casinelli

Francis Casinelli

1882 – 1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

R.I.P. REST IN PEACE

John “Jack” Evans

John “Jack” Evans

1897 – 1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

W Rason

W Rason

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

W O Lewendon

W O Lewendon

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Edgar Arthur Worth

Edgar Arthur Worth

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

NO MORNING DAWNS NO NIGHT RETURNS BUT WHAT I THINK OF THEE.

G W Hobbs

G W Hobbs

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Charles Edmund Beeston

Charles Edmund Beeston

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD TAKETH AWAY. BLESSED BY THY LORD.

George Herbert Hardwick

George Herbert Hardwick

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Walter Hopkins

Walter Hopkins

1896 – 1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Timothy Underwood

Timothy Underwood

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

T Williams

T Williams

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

James McBreen

James McBreen

1892 – 1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Charles Peter Young Stark

Charles Peter Young Stark

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

W W Reid

W W Reid

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

William Pye

William Pye

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

John McMillan

John McMillan

1886 – 1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

In loving memory of my dear husband, Private John McMillan 11th Scottish Rifles Killed in Action 19h Sept 1918 in Salonika . "O for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still."

Frederick Sherratt

Frederick Sherratt

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

J Gwynne

J Gwynne

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

W J Jones

W J Jones

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Hyman Bernard Benjamin

Hyman Bernard Benjamin

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Alex Rawson

Alex Rawson

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

John Henry Collier

John Henry Collier

1891 – 1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson

1891 – 1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Harold Beaumont

Harold Beaumont

1883 – 1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

"Pro Patria"

John Tanner Gomin

John Tanner Gomin

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Albert Edward Leigh

Albert Edward Leigh

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Edward Bechemin

Edward Bechemin

1895 – 1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

GONE FROM OUR HOME BUT NOT OUR HEARTS. FROM HIS SORROWING AUNT.

G Thompson

G Thompson

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Benjamin Ford

Benjamin Ford

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

H F Walker

H F Walker

1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

Wilfred Harrison

Wilfred Harrison

1896 – 1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

Frank Harris

Frank Harris

1887 – 1918

Doiran Military Cemetery

A E Stevens

A E Stevens

1917

Doiran Military Cemetery

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