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Mikra Memorial

Mikra Memorial

📍 Kalamaria, Πανόραμα, Grecia

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Mikra Memorial is inside Mikra British Cemetery and is situated in the Municipality of Kalamaria in the city of Thessaloniki just off Konstantinou Karamanlis Street between the army camp of Ntalipi (pronounced Dalipi) and the Kalamaria Greek Communal Cemetery. From both the town centre and airport of Thessaloniki it is approximately a 20 minute drive and can be accessed by first driving along Leoforos Ethnikis Antistaseos highway then entering Makedonias Street and turning right at the top of this road at the traffic lights. From there you enter Konstantinou Karamanlis and the cemetery is approx 300 metres further on your right and a CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) sign is clearly visible. At the invitation of the Greek Prime Minister, M.Eleftherios Venizelos, Salonika (now Thessaloniki) 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 Thessaloniki. The ships were: HT "Marquette", torpedoed and sunk by 'U35' on 23 October 1915, 57.5 kilometres south from Salonika Bay, carrying the 29th Division Ammunition Column and the New Zealand Stationary Hospital. HT "Ivernia", torpedoed and sunk on 1 January 1917, 93 kilometres from Cape Matapan, carrying reinforcements for Egypt. HT "Arcadian" was torpedoed and sunk on 15 April 1917, 41.5 kilometres north east from the island of Milo (Melos), carrying reinforcements for Egypt. Hospital Ship "Britannic", of the White Star Line, sunk by mine on 21 November 1916 in the Zea Channel between Greece and the Cyclades, on her way from Naples to Mudos. Fleet Messenger "Princess Alberta", sunk by mine between Stavros and Mudros on 21 February 1917.

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Deceased (483)

JF

John Ferguson MacDonald

1885 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

JC

John Cropper

1864 – 1916

Mikra Memorial

Cenotaph; Memorial to the victims of the HMHS Britannic in Greece

Charles Ernest Axford

Charles Ernest Axford

1878 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

WW

Wallace Watson

1917

Mikra Memorial

Charles Wilson

Charles Wilson

1917

Mikra Memorial

David Southam

David Southam

1880 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

JS

Joseph Simms

1917

Mikra Memorial

Robert Bruce Herdman

Robert Bruce Herdman

1915

Mikra Memorial

Roland Harwood Clarke

Roland Harwood Clarke

1888 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

AW

Alfred William Wallis

1915

Mikra Memorial

WT

William Thomas Standley

1915

Mikra Memorial

EW

Ernest William George Linsdell

1917

Mikra Memorial

Isabel Clark

Isabel Clark

1885 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

WD

William Douglas Nichols

1917

Mikra Memorial

Alfred Howard Remmett

Alfred Howard Remmett

1880 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

FT

Frederick Thomas Coles

1880 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

Herbert Noble

Herbert Noble

1917

Mikra Memorial

Frederick William Mungham

Frederick William Mungham

1893 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

H. T. MARQUETTE ROYAL HORSE & ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY GUNNER MUNGHAM F. W.

RF

Reginald Frederick Johnson

1917

Mikra Memorial

Tom Knighton

Tom Knighton

1915

Mikra Memorial

Ernest Albert Cook

Ernest Albert Cook

1915

Mikra Memorial

Reginald Leslie Percival Cuming

Reginald Leslie Percival Cuming

1915

Mikra Memorial

WA

William Arthur Ince

1917

Mikra Memorial

Charles Allen

Charles Allen

1917

Mikra Memorial

John Bruno Walter

John Bruno Walter

1915

Mikra Memorial

Robert Mellor

Robert Mellor

1917

Mikra Memorial

JT

John Turnbull Ross

1915

Mikra Memorial

GS

George Somersett Brereton

1875 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

Joseph Doyle

Joseph Doyle

1916

Mikra Memorial

Frank Keary

Frank Keary

1915

Mikra Memorial

GP

George Povey

1915

Mikra Memorial

OF

Oscar Fox

1915

Mikra Memorial

James Bennett

James Bennett

1917

Mikra Memorial

Thomas Dryden Thompson

Thomas Dryden Thompson

1895 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

Kenneth McKenzie

Kenneth McKenzie

1915

Mikra Memorial

Raymond Shaw

Raymond Shaw

1893 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

Nevins Robert Potter

Nevins Robert Potter

1915

Mikra Memorial

JR

John Rowley

1917

Mikra Memorial

SR

Solomon Rose

1917

Mikra Memorial

HJ

Herbert John Rosenthall

1875 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

GH

George Henry Charles Stephens

1917

Mikra Memorial

Albert Edward Amson

Albert Edward Amson

1915

Mikra Memorial

James Steuart Skinner

James Steuart Skinner

1885 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

Horace Henry Baldock-Apps

Horace Henry Baldock-Apps

1887 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

Sydney James Baldwin

Sydney James Baldwin

1896 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

AC

Alfred Cann

1917

Mikra Memorial

GD

Gilbert D. Randle

1915

Mikra Memorial

George Barker

George Barker

1917

Mikra Memorial

SY

Samuel Yates

1917

Mikra Memorial

WH

Walter Henry Mumby

1917

Mikra Memorial

Edward Henry Bonser

Edward Henry Bonser

1895 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

ED

Evan Davies

1917

Mikra Memorial

TR

Thomas Ramsden

1917

Mikra Memorial

L R Cooper

L R Cooper

1915

Mikra Memorial

FC

Frederick Charles Coppin

1917

Mikra Memorial

Rupert Bertram Johnstone

Rupert Bertram Johnstone

1896 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

JR

John Rush

1917

Mikra Memorial

WS

William Smith

1917

Mikra Memorial

WR

Walter Richard Neville

1915

Mikra Memorial

Frederick Ernest Crampton

Frederick Ernest Crampton

1915

Mikra Memorial

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