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Mikra British Cemetery

Mikra British Cemetery

📍 Kalamaria, Πανόραμα, Grecia

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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)

Thomas Brown Pearson

Thomas Brown Pearson

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

R J Bainbridge

R J Bainbridge

1880 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Robert Armstrong Weir

Robert Armstrong Weir

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Arthur Story

Arthur Story

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

WJ

William James Everett

1880 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Samuel Mckee

Samuel Mckee

1895 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

George Edward Ford

George Edward Ford

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Denis O'Mahony

Denis O'Mahony

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

163556 Lance Corporal Royal Engineers

Ignazio Cauchi

Ignazio Cauchi

1899 – 1919

Mikra British Cemetery

John Rudge

John Rudge

1916

Mikra British Cemetery

Thomas William Harrison

Thomas William Harrison

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Ernest Dale

Ernest Dale

1889 – 1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Emanuel Bezzina

Emanuel Bezzina

1888 – 1919

Mikra British Cemetery

John James Smith

John James Smith

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Joseph William Crofts

Joseph William Crofts

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Edgar Thomas Arundel

Edgar Thomas Arundel

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

H Diamond

H Diamond

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Herbert Edward Berry

Herbert Edward Berry

1897 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Walter Hill

Walter Hill

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Dudley Clement Ravenscroft

Dudley Clement Ravenscroft

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

W Nash

W Nash

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Richard John Binnersley

Richard John Binnersley

1885 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

H Halsey

H Halsey

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

J Nolan

J Nolan

1916

Mikra British Cemetery

Francis Edmond Thomas

Francis Edmond Thomas

1878 – 1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Richard George Amis

Richard George Amis

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

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Robert Griffith

Robert Griffith

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Harold Williams

Harold Williams

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Stanley Doyle

Stanley Doyle

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

David Ferguson

David Ferguson

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Henry Brindley

Henry Brindley

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery. Age: 21.

Herbert Edgar Woolcock

Herbert Edgar Woolcock

1881 – 1916

Mikra British Cemetery

James Harris

James Harris

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

C Hill

C Hill

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

J Laird Thomson

J Laird Thomson

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Maurice “Moss” Curtis

Maurice “Moss” Curtis

1897 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

C T Beck

C T Beck

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Stotan M Burtov

Stotan M Burtov

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Unknown Unknown

Unknown Unknown

Mikra British Cemetery

A British Soldier of the Great War

Richard Cantrill

Richard Cantrill

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

M Thomson

M Thomson

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Khalil Aliev

Khalil Aliev

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

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James Shorland Hart

James Shorland Hart

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Alexander Davidson Gavin

Alexander Davidson Gavin

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

A. R. Miller

A. R. Miller

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Isaac Smith

Isaac Smith

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Sidney Fred Marchant

Sidney Fred Marchant

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Charlie Loveday

Charlie Loveday

1894 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Percival Thomas Watson Walker

Percival Thomas Watson Walker

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Viggo Michael Rasmussen

Viggo Michael Rasmussen

1891 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

W F James

W F James

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Frank William Chivers

Frank William Chivers

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Ernest George West

Ernest George West

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

Raymond McDonald Cook

Raymond McDonald Cook

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

E Golland

E Golland

1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Percy Carter

Percy Carter

1885 – 1917

Mikra British Cemetery

Carmelo Carmilleri

Carmelo Carmilleri

1919

Mikra British Cemetery

Waiter, Maltese Labour Corps. Age: 22.

T Savas

T Savas

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

George Kitson

George Kitson

1884 – 1918

Mikra British Cemetery

John Clarke

John Clarke

1918

Mikra British Cemetery

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