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Mikra British Cemetery

Mikra British Cemetery

📍 Kalamaria, Πανόραμα, Grecia

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About the cemetery

Mikra British Cemetery is situated approximately 8 kilometres south of Thessaloniki, in the municipality of Kalamaria (behind the army camp of Ntalipi). Access is via the main entrance on Vryoylon Street, directly opposite the communal cemetery of Kalamaria. At the invitation of the Greek Prime Minister, M.Venizelos, Salonika (now Thessalonika) was occupied by three French Divisions and the 10th (Irish) Division from Gallipoli in October 1915. Other French and Commonwealth forces landed during the year and in the summer of 1916, they were joined by Russian and Italian troops. In August 1916, a Greek revolution broke out at Salonika, with the result that the Greek national army came into the war on the Allied side. The town was the base of the British Salonika Force and it contained, from time to time, eighteen general and stationary hospitals. Three of these hospitals were Canadian, although there were no other Canadian units in the force. The earliest Commonwealth burials took place in the local Protestant and Roman Catholic cemeteries, and the Anglo-French (now Lembet Road) Military Cemetery was used from November 1915 to October 1918. The British cemetery at Mikra was opened in April 1917, remaining in use until 1920. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from a number of burial grounds in the area. MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY now contains 1,810 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, as well as 147 war graves of other nationalities. Within the cemetery will be found the MIKRA MEMORIAL, commemorating almost 500 nurses, officers and men of the Commonwealth forces who died when troop transports and hospital ships were lost in the Mediterranean, and who have no grave but the sea. They are commemorated here because others who went down in the same vessels were washed ashore and identified, and are now buried at Thessalonika. (text used with kind permission of CWGC)

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Deceased (1.968)

Robert Potter

Robert Potter

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

H Spence

H Spence

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Vyvyan Thompson Trethowan

Vyvyan Thompson Trethowan

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

William Vickers Dunfee

William Vickers Dunfee

1899 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Iotso Khristov Marinov

Iotso Khristov Marinov

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Joseph Bertram Scott

Joseph Bertram Scott

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

G Smith

G Smith

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Victor Henry Cowmeadow

Victor Henry Cowmeadow

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Randolph Hall

Randolph Hall

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

George William Charles Stanger

George William Charles Stanger

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

W Cooper

W Cooper

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

David Groom

David Groom

1916

Mikra British Cemetery

D Panayotis

D Panayotis

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

George Gibson Smith

George Gibson Smith

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

W Ross

W Ross

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Frederick Arthur Broughton

Frederick Arthur Broughton

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Thomas Chivers

Thomas Chivers

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Charles John Bateman

Charles John Bateman

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

C W Flynn

C W Flynn

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

H J Wheeler

H J Wheeler

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

William Skinner

William Skinner

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

M Dempsey

M Dempsey

1916

Mikra British Cemetery

Gladys Maud Jones

Gladys Maud Jones

1886 – 1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Volunteer G. M. Jones Voluntary Aid Detachment 21st August 1917 (Cross)

George Allan Brown

George Allan Brown

1888 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Arthur George Dumbrell

Arthur George Dumbrell

1882 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

William Thomas Hughes

William Thomas Hughes

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

J White

J White

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Martin P Marinov

Martin P Marinov

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

H. F. Hicks

H. F. Hicks

1886 – 1917

Mikra British Cemetery

M J Sullivan

M J Sullivan

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

W Sullivan

W Sullivan

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Charles Reginald Leatherby

Charles Reginald Leatherby

1898 – 1919

Mikra British Cemetery

John Alexander Allen

John Alexander Allen

1873 – 1916

Mikra British Cemetery

Arthur Charles Emson

Arthur Charles Emson

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

A Johnson

A Johnson

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Harry Brinklow

Harry Brinklow

1916

Mikra British Cemetery

P McCann

P McCann

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

William Jones

William Jones

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

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A G Gibbs

A G Gibbs

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Elia Novikoff

Elia Novikoff

1920

Mikra British Cemetery

Glyn W. O. Hulm

Glyn W. O. Hulm

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Herbert Thomas

Herbert Thomas

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Albert Edward Reeks

Albert Edward Reeks

1883 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

C E French

C E French

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Lewis Williams

Lewis Williams

1895 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Andrew James Knight

Andrew James Knight

1896 – 1919

Mikra British Cemetery

G Stoichev Stankov

G Stoichev Stankov

1920

Mikra British Cemetery

John Taylor

John Taylor

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Harry Belfield

Harry Belfield

1894 – 1917

Mikra British Cemetery

F W Winkie

F W Winkie

1916

Mikra British Cemetery

J H Jameson

J H Jameson

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

A E Skates

A E Skates

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Y S Alexanra

Y S Alexanra

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

James Pearson

James Pearson

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

J H Coldicott

J H Coldicott

1886 – 1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Tom Rees Stubbins

Tom Rees Stubbins

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Joseph Brueton

Joseph Brueton

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Richard Heaton Kendall

Richard Heaton Kendall

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Joseph William Smith

Joseph William Smith

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Alexander Snape

Alexander Snape

1885 – 1919

Mikra British Cemetery

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