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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)

William Thomas Coutts

William Thomas Coutts

1877 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

GC

George Cuthbert

1915

Mikra Memorial

WD

William Davies

1917

Mikra Memorial

WG

William Groves

1917

Mikra Memorial

SS

Sidney Smith Leggett

1915

Mikra Memorial

Joseph Balfour

Joseph Balfour

1890 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

RD

Robert Dale

1917

Mikra Memorial

AE

Albert Edward Tucknott

1915

Mikra Memorial

Nona Mildred Hildyard

Nona Mildred Hildyard

1890 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

JH

John Henry Bowness

1917

Mikra Memorial

GF

Gilbert Frank Shergold

1917

Mikra Memorial

AS

Albert Stanley Morris

1917

Mikra Memorial

George William King

George William King

1916

Mikra Memorial

Clarence Dornford Thompson

Clarence Dornford Thompson

1890 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

WJ

Wilfred Jones

1917

Mikra Memorial

James Michael McGee

James Michael McGee

1879 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

RR

Reginald Robinson

1915

Mikra Memorial

Edgar James Victor Packham

Edgar James Victor Packham

1915

Mikra Memorial

George Tagg

George Tagg

1863 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

JB

James Benjamin Baker

1917

Mikra Memorial

JR

John Robertson

1917

Mikra Memorial

HE

Harry Eaton

1917

Mikra Memorial

Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson

Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson

1881 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

Henry Richard Cleverly

Henry Richard Cleverly

1915

Mikra Memorial

TP

Thomas Parkinson

1917

Mikra Memorial

Geoffrey Hugh Baker

Geoffrey Hugh Baker

1915

Mikra Memorial

Stanley Glenister

Stanley Glenister

1917

Mikra Memorial

FD

Frederick Dorman

1915

Mikra Memorial

Daniel Pollock

Daniel Pollock

1885 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

HG

Harry Gascoyne

1917

Mikra Memorial

GH

George Henry Pryce

1917

Mikra Memorial

William Trueman

William Trueman

1895 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

JR

James Rawcliffe

1917

Mikra Memorial

BE

Bertram Edwards

1917

Mikra Memorial

SC

Sydney Charles Warner

1915

Mikra Memorial

WA

William Arthur Smith

1917

Mikra Memorial

EM

Ernest Marmont

1917

Mikra Memorial

John McIver

John McIver

1915

Mikra Memorial

RJ

Robert John Sullivan

1917

Mikra Memorial

EJ

Edmond John Williams

1915

Mikra Memorial

MF

Murdo Fraser

1917

Mikra Memorial

Claude Harold Nicholson

Claude Harold Nicholson

1915

Mikra Memorial

AW

Alfred Williams

1917

Mikra Memorial

John Puckle

John Puckle

1869 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

Peter Leo Knight

Peter Leo Knight

1915

Mikra Memorial

George Brown

George Brown

1915

Mikra Memorial

JE

John Edward Bolton

1892 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

HG

Henry Gale

1917

Mikra Memorial

Charles Abbott

Charles Abbott

1917

Mikra Memorial

Frederick Tostevin

Frederick Tostevin

1892 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

TD

Thomas Davis Roberts

1917

Mikra Memorial

HS

Hedley Sweet

1915

Mikra Memorial

ER

Edwin Real Bennett

1891 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

CI

Charles Innes Morgan

1917

Mikra Memorial

EN

Ernest Noble

1915

Mikra Memorial

CC

Charles Cecil Martin Lowe

1917

Mikra Memorial

HP

Harold Parson

1915

Mikra Memorial

FS

Frederick Snell

1915

Mikra Memorial

FC

F Coleman

1917

Mikra Memorial

AS

Alexander Stewart

1917

Mikra Memorial

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