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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)

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Hammond Tregay Bunn

1883 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

John McKenny

John McKenny

1894 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

George Ernest Laight

George Ernest Laight

1886 – 1917

Mikra Memorial

JH

Joseph Hadfield

1915

Mikra Memorial

William Stone

William Stone

1916

Mikra Memorial

William George Smallman

William George Smallman

1917

Mikra Memorial

CW

Charles William McKendam

1915

Mikra Memorial

Frank Tarran

Frank Tarran

1915

Mikra Memorial

RA

Robert Andrew Hanners

1917

Mikra Memorial

E. Lawrence Briggs

E. Lawrence Briggs

1915

Mikra Memorial

JR

James Richard Waters

1917

Mikra Memorial

JB

John Burns

1917

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ET

Edward Tipping

1917

Mikra Memorial

Frank Seabrook

Frank Seabrook

1917

Mikra Memorial

Mary Helen Rae

Mary Helen Rae

1880 – 1915

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AE

Albert Edward Morgan

1915

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HS

Harry Stanley Dennis

1917

Mikra Memorial

Leo Maxse Pibel

Leo Maxse Pibel

1917

Mikra Memorial

JJ

John Joseph James

1917

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Ingram Richard Rhodes Brogden

Ingram Richard Rhodes Brogden

1892 – 1917

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WL

William Lynass

1915

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WR

William Reid

1917

Mikra Memorial

OE

Oscar Elliott Marshall

1917

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HY

Harold Yates

1917

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RF

Robert Fyfe

1917

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CW

Clarence Warcup

1917

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JF

John Finch

1917

Mikra Memorial

SY

Samuel Young

1917

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JT

James Tomlinson

1917

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BA

Bertie Augustus Prior

1915

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DT

David Thomas Woolmore

1917

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JR

John Regan

1917

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EN

Edward Norcross

1917

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GF

G Frost

1917

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RW

Reginald Waller Garside

1898 – 1917

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HW

Herbert William Rowley

1917

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William West

William West

1886 – 1917

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Henry Davis

Henry Davis

1917

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James Rae

James Rae

1917

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William Arthur Grainger

William Arthur Grainger

1917

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WH

William Henry Belben

1917

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JE

James Elliot

1917

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William Bushell

William Bushell

1915

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Albert James Hipkiss

Albert James Hipkiss

1917

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AH

Alfred Henry Thompson

1917

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James Herbert Porter

James Herbert Porter

1880 – 1915

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JC

James Coull

1917

Mikra Memorial

GA

George Arthur Vernon

1917

Mikra Memorial

JC

Joseph Cornelius McConachie

1895 – 1917

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JW

Joseph William Jones

1917

Mikra Memorial

JS

John Seward

1915

Mikra Memorial

JT

John Thomas Murphy

1917

Mikra Memorial

Clarence Perrin

Clarence Perrin

1894 – 1915

Mikra Memorial

Fred Garside

Fred Garside

1917

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MW

Morris William Danzig

1917

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Thomas Harry Dicker

Thomas Harry Dicker

1917

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WB

William Balmer Robinson

1915

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JA

James Archibald Wilson

1915

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JH

John Humphreys

1917

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BH

Bertie Howling

1917

Mikra Memorial

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