Rhodes War Cemetery

📍 Rhodes, Ρόδος, Grecia

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Rhodes War Cemetery is in the southern outskirts of the town of Rhodes, on the west side of the old coastal road to Lindos. The cemetery is located on Kallithea Avenue opposite the Italian, Jewish and Turkish cemeteries and next to the archaeological site of Korakonero. The island of Rhodes, the home of the Knights of St. John from 1390, after they had been driven out of Jerusalem, is famous for its Greek and Roman antiquities. The remains of an ancient Greek burial ground, now preserved as a national monument, adjoin the war cemetery. The town and port of Rhodes occupies the most northerly corner of the island, the residential portion, which is modern, lying immediately west of Mandrakhi harbour, the port used for passenger ships. The commercial port is Emborio. Rhodes War Cemetery is on the southern outskirts of the town, on the western side of the road to Lindos, near the 3rd Kilo stone and opposite the Italian, Jewish and Turkish cemeteries. It was made by the military authorities when Allied forces returned to the island after the surrender of Germany and was taken over by the Commission in December, 1946. Those who lost their lives on Rhodes and many other Islands during the operations in the Dodecanese were brought to this last resting place from isolated graves and from various civil cemeteries. Here also lie 65 men who died on Cos, whose graves were moved into this cemetery from the small Cos War Cemetery which had to be closed in July, 1957. The headstones from Cos were re-erected over the new graves. The total number of burials in Rhodes War Cemetery is now 142. There are special memorials erected to those known to be buried in certain groups of graves, whose actual graves within these groups cannot be precisely identified. They bear the inscription " Buried near this Spot".

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Deceased (104)

Ralph White

1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)

Harry Knott

1941

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

Kenneth MacIver

1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Naval Patrol Service

Khan Alam

1925 – 1946

Rhodes War Cemetery

Baluch Regiment

Alexander Toner

1945

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Navy

Samuel Noel Platt

1914 – 1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

1918088 Sapper S.N. Platt, Royal Engineers, 4th October 1943 Age 28 Forever With The Lord "Thy Will Be Done" Dearly Loved

Norman Gay

1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Laurence Smith

1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Artillery

Clifford Henry Whitehead

1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

SACRED TO OUR DEAR SON AND BROTHER, EVER A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY OF HIM WE LOVED SO DEAR

Austen Kolbe Barry

1916 – 1944

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Richard Nowell

1941

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

William “Bill” Morrison

1918 – 1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

IN LOVING MEMORY OF BILL OUR DEAREST SON AND BROTHER. ASLEEP IN JESUS

Alwari Badari

1945

Rhodes War Cemetery

Alwar Jey Paltan, Indian States Forces

Walter Young McGregor

1916 – 1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

John M. Cooke

1922 – 1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

ROYAL NAVY H.M. MOTOR LAUNCH 579

Alfred Devey

1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Navy

Alastair McLEAN

1941

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Thomas Dawes

1944

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Francois J. Canzuck

1907 – 1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

GENERAL LIST PRIEZ POUR LUI

Harold Morley Coate

1920 – 1941

Rhodes War Cemetery

[insignia, King's Royal Rifle Corps] 6896780 L.CPL H.M. COATE THE RANGERS (9th BN. K.R.R.C.) 27TH APRIL 1941 AGE 21 KIND AND COURAGEOUS GOD HAS GAINED WHOM WE HAVE LOST MAY OUR SON REST IN PEACE

Donald Bryson

1925 – 1946

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Ernest V. Aylmore

1946

Rhodes War Cemetery

GUNNER E.V. AYLMORE ROYAL NAVY H.M.S PEACOCK

John Edward Williams

1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND. MUM AND FAMILY

William Dalco

1911 – 1941

Rhodes War Cemetery

Royal Australian Air Force

Frederick H. Bush

1905 – 1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

Durham Light Infantry

Gordon Ronald Martell

1943

Rhodes War Cemetery

1458928 Ldg. Aircraftman G. R. Martell Royal Air Force 19th September 1943 Age 21 In memory of our precious son who gave his young life in his country's service