Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

📍 Athens, Πειραιάς, Grecia

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Phaleron War Cemetery lies a few kilometres to the south-east of Athens, at the boundary between old Phaleron district and Alimos-Kalamak district, on the coast road from Athens to Vouliaghmen. The easiest means of reaching the cemetery is by the coastal tram, which takes about 35 minutes from the terminus at Syntagma Square on route 5 towards Glyfada. Alight at Pikrodafni, a stop about 200 metres beyond the cemetery, from where it can be easily seen. The Athens Memorial stands in the cemetery. The site of what is now Phaleron War Cemetery was chosen originally by the 4th Division as a burial ground for Commonwealth casualties of the Greek Civil War (December 1944-February 1945). Subsequently, the military authorities, in conjunction with the Greek Government and the Army Graves Service, decided that it would be the most suitable site for a Second World War cemetery for the whole mainland of Greece. The 23rd and 24th Graves Registration Units and the 21st and 22nd Australian War Graves Units worked together to bring in graves of the 1941 campaign from the battlefields, temporary military cemeteries and from various civil cemeteries. There are now 2029 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 596 of the burials are unidentified. Special memorials commemorate casualties known to have been interred in certain groups of graves in the cemetery, but whose individual graves cannot be precisely located within these groups. Other special memorials commemorate casualties re-buried in the cemetery from original graves which, owing to the destruction of local records, could not be identified. Also within the cemetery are: The Phaleron Cremation Memorial, commemorating 74 men of the army of undivided India who died during the campaigns in Greece and Crete during the Second World War and who were accorded the last rite required by their religion - committal to fire; the Athens Memorial, commemorating nearly 3000 members of the land forces of the Commonwealth who lost their lives during the campaigns in Greece and Crete in 1941 and 1944-1945, in the Dodecanese Islands in 1943-1945 and in Yugoslavia in 1943-1945, and who have no known grave; and, in the north-east corner of the cemetery, a plot containing the graves of servicemen and civilians who after serving in the Crimean War, died in Greece, and were buried in the Anglo-French Crimean Cemetery, New Phaleron. The graves were moved in 1966 when that cemetery could no longer be maintained.

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Deceased (4.498)

James Renshaw Bromley

1910 – 1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

4035296 Gunner J.R. Bromley Royal Artillery 30th. January 1945 Age 35 At the going down of the Sun and in the morning We will remember him

Jack J Moyes

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Raymond William Venes

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Leicestershire Regiment

Leslie Nicholson Dobson

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

Roy Piercy

1915 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

3166 Private, R. Piercy, N.Z. Infantry, 6th September 1941, Age 26

Reginald Frank Burdon

1917 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

VX. 2329 Private R.F. Burdon A.A.S.C. 6 Aust. Div. 20th. May 1941 Age 24 He died that we might live A.A.S.C. = Australian Army Service Corps

Murray Moore

1911 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Arthur Herbert Green

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Francisco Xavier Martins

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

F.X. Martins Butler S.S. "Goalpara" 2nd. September 1941

Jack J Humphreys

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Eric Harry Niblett

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

George Redvers Burton

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Lawrence Sladdin

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

2056716 SERJEANT L. SLADDIN PARACHUTE REGIMENT ARMY AIR CORPS 4TH JANUARY 1945 AGE 23 WHEN IS HOPES WERE BEST HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS GOD GRANT HIM REST

Jack Douglas Cornell

1922 – 1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

4543061 Gunner J.D. Cornell Royal Artillery 4th. January 1945 Age 23

Walter Alexander Theyers

1906 – 1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Buried near this spot 33434 Private W.A. Theyers N.Z. Infantry 17th. August 1942 Age 35

William Hector McKAY

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

Herbert H Brittain

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

John Montague Drake

1905 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

VX. 9796 L. Bdr J.M. Drake 2/2 Aust. Fd. Rgt. 23rd. April 1941 Age 36 Rest in Peace

James J McGUIRE

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Stephen Henry Joseph Turnbull

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Singh Sagar

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Corps of Military Police (India)

Eric Leslie Fasham

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Norman Roderick McKay

1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Robert Ypres Harper

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

Bernard Kane

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

1519690 Serjeant B. Kane Royal Artillery 24th. December 1944 Age 36

Stephen Basil Hewitt

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

1458789 Bombardier S.B. Hewitt Royal Artillery 21st. December 1944 Age 25 Loving memories of our only child. Mother and Dad "A duty well done"

Gilbert G Gibbons

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Frederick William Lees

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Jack Robin

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Infantry

Frederick F. Ackrill

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Thomas McGreevy

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

3717408 Private T. McGreevy Royal Army Ordnance Corps 13th. June 1945 Age 31 To live in the hearts Of those who loved you Is not to die. R.I.P. Loving wife and daughter

Victor Boycott

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Service Number: 4918827 1st Bn., South Staffordshire Regiment

Yousef Ahmad Mohamad

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Pioneer Corps

Ernest Claude Robins

1916 – 1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Kenneth Jack Wickens

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Royal Artillery

Geoffrey Kenneth Stewart

1913 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

John James Chatburn

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Harry Taylor

1940

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

IN MEMORY. EVER DEAR

Sidney Jones

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

S.J. Jones Ordinary Seaman. R.N. D/JX. 182608 H.M.S. "Diamond" 27th. April 1941 Age 21 The past has ties so strong That e'er will memory remain Of one whose charm and love We never can regain