Suda Bay War Cemetery

📍 Chania, Σούδα, Grecia

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Suda Bay War Cemetery is located approximately 5 km east from the centre of Chania (Xania). From Chania follow the Suda Boulevard road for approximately 4 km until you arrive at the junction of Ellis and then turn left following the signs for the Airport and Vlite. Proceed for around 200 metres along this road until you arrive at the junction of Mavridaki Street. Turn left onto Mavridaki Street and follow this road for 400 metres until you come to the CWGC sign on the right hand side. Proceed for a further 100 metres and turn right at the next CWGC sign. The cemetery is in an olive grove. In May 1941, the Commonwealth force in Crete was organised in five widely separated defence areas along the north coast - around the three airfields at Iraklion, Rethymnon and Maleme, and at Suda Bay and the port of Chania. The Germans launched their attack on 20 May with airborne troops. The airfield at Maleme was quickly captured and used for landing German reinforcements. On 23 May, the remainder of the Maleme position had to be given up and its defenders fell back to Chania. On 26 May, the Allied line west of Chania was broken. Suda Bay became indefensible and the troops from these two positions, with the remainder of the Maleme garrison, withdrew across the island to Sfakion, where many of them were evacuated by sea on the nights of the 28 - 31 May. The airborne attacks on the Iraklion and Rethymnon positions on 20 May were repulsed. Iraklion was successfully defended until the night of 29/29 May when the garrison was evacuated by sea. Orders for the Rethymnon garrison to fight its way southward for evacuation did not arrive, and it was overwhelmed on 31 May. Of the total Commonwealth land force of 32,000 men, 18,000 were evacuated, 12,000 were taken prisoner and 2,000 were killed. The site of Suda Bay War Cemetery was chosen after the war and graves were moved there by 21st and 22nd Australian War Graves Units from the four burial grounds that had been established by the German occupying forces at Chania, Iraklion, Rethymnon and Galata, and from isolated sites and civilian cemeteries. There are now 1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 776 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate a number of casualties believed to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains 19 First World War burials brought in from Suda Bay Consular Cemetery, 1 being unidentified. There are also 7 burials of other nationalities and 37 non-war burials.

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Deceased (780)

Dudley Perkins

1915 – 1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

William Edward Milligan

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6681 New Zealand Infantry

Hughbert Patrick Donnelly

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7662 New Zealand Infantry

John McMorland

1917 – 1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE SAD TO RECALL, WITHOUT FAREWELL HE LEFT US ALL

John Ross

1908 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6740 New Zealand Infantry

John Mayo Tolley

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX1694 Royal Australian Artillery

Frederick George Redfern

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Isabella Howard

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Patrick Sinnett

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1567977 FLIGHT SERGEANT P. SINNETT AIR BOMBER ROYAL AIR FORCE 22ND NOVEMBER 1945 AGE 21 † TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED SON PAT HIS MOTHER

Alan Egbert Hacking

1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

SQUADRON LEADER A. E. HACKING PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE

Horton Oliphant Stewart

1907 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4183 Lieutenant H.O. Stewart, N.Z. Infantry, 27th May 1941, Age 34

George Brooks Almond

1904

Suda Bay War Cemetery

John Henry Wort

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3966328 Welch Regiment

Frederick Beasley

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3532735 CORPORAL F. BEASLEY THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT No. 7 COMMANDO 1ST-2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 22 † OPEN WIDE THINE ARMS, O LORD, AND LET HIM REST THEREIN

Robert R. Johnston

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1463566 Royal Artillery

Allan Dixon

1920 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Australian Artillery

John Curry

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Herbert Edward Lascelles Ryrie

1901 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Warwick Sydney Hall

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30264 CORPORAL W. S. HALL N. Z. INFANTRY 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 34 † NEW ZEALAND

Gilbert James Morrison Martin

1907 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Noel Samuel Beeche

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

25015 PRIVATE N. S. BEECHE N. Z. INFANTRY 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 26 † NEW ZEALAND

J. Saunders

1897

Suda Bay War Cemetery

J. Saunders Chief Stoker Royal Navy 9th. March 1897

James William Miller

1912 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX796 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

John William Horton

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1532340 Gunner J. W. Horton Royal Artillery 2nd June 1941 Age 23

Thomas Walter Hughes

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1458371 Royal Artillery

John J. Lefroy-Owen

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

104145 Royal Artillery

Renold Archibald McKenzie

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2706 TROOPER R. A. MCKENZIE N. Z. DIVISIONAL CAVALRY REGT. N. Z. ARMOURED CORPS 2 JUNE 1941 AGE 26 †

Albert Edward Cummings

1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Mercantile Marine

James Whalley Smyth

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1870 New Zealand Artillery

Robert George Thomas

1907 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX4852 Australian Infantry

Archibald Seaforth Gillanders

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10214 PRIVATE A. S. GILLANDERS N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 27

Thomas Dalrymple

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Australian Artillery

Hilton Francis Kelly

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX7690 Australian Infantry

Douglas D. Layton

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX44655 Royal Australian Artillery

Morgan Fishburne

1892 – 1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Edward Thomas Rowntree

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

32989 SAPPER New Zealand Engineers

Leslie John Watkins

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Welch Regiment

Patu Andy Williams

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39728 PRIVATE P. A. WILLIAMS N. Z. INFANTRY 23RD MAY 1941 AGE 23

Douglas Spinley

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3075 SERJEANT N. Z. INFANTRY AGE 26

Harry Sutton Frankland

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1444726 Royal Artillery

James Edward Rouse

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

87504 Royal Army Medical Corps

Petera Maika Rangipuawhe

1912 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39251 Private P. M. Rangipuawhe N. Z. Infantry 23rd May 1941 age 29 [A fern with New Zealand written underneath, all within a cross]

Patrick P Sullivan

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Elwood Maurice William Bolton

1908 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

FLYING OFFICER E. M. W. BOLTON OBSERVER ROYAL AIR FORCE 23RD NOVEMBER 1942 AGE 34 † IN GRATITUDE TO GOD FOR ELWOOD. LOVED SON AND BROTHER

T. R. Burge

1900

Suda Bay War Cemetery

T.R. Burge Able Seaman, RN. H.M.S. "Illustrious" 12th. November 1900

Charles George Thorbjornsen

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX683 Australian Infantry

Walter Mark Courtney

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39707 PRIVATE W. M. COURTNEY N. Z. INFANTRY 23RD MAY 1941

Gerard Cox

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Army Service Corps

Joseph Alan Wood

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7347432 Royal Army Medical Corps

John Andrew “Andy” Jamieson

1898 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Leslie Cornthwaite

1921 – 1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7596146 CRAFTSMAN L. CORNTHWAITE R. E. M. E. 29TH JANUARY 1945 AGE 24 † NO LENGTH OF TIME CAN DIM OUR LOVED ONE'S PAST, FOR TREASURED MEMORIES LAST

George Ernest Maltravers Chisnall

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Francis Churton

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10195 New Zealand Infantry

Gilbert Robert Perrett

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1557836 Royal Artillery

William Bryan Nicolson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

14295 TROOPER N. Z. Armoured Corps

Frederick James Page

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NO ONE KNOWS HOW WE MISS HIM OR OF OUR SILENT HEARTACHE. LOVING MUM, DAD, SISTERS AND BROTHER

Wilfred George Orme

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7593767 PRIVATE W. G. ORME ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS 24TH MAY 1941 AGE 21 †

Edwin Chatfield Riley

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX7711 Australian Infantry

Robert Douglas H. Weir

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX2408 Australian Infantry

George Langston Croxford

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

31095 N. Z. INFANTRY

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