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)

Milton Francis Mexted

1907 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4477 DRIVER M. F. MEXTED N. Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 34 †

Allen Finley Peter Nicholson

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2998 PRIVATE A. F. P. NICHOLSON N.Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 23 † NEW ZEALAND

Herbert Wilson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1512796 Royal Artillery

Leslie Ernest Percy Cory

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

GOD HAS YOU IN HIS KEEPING, WE HAVE YOU IN OUR HEARTS. REST IN PEACE

Donald Olivier Bradburn

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1590843 WARRANT OFFICER D. O. BRADBURN FLIGHT ENGINEER ROYAL AIR FORCE 22ND NOVEMBER 1945 †

Robert Muir

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX837 Australian Infantry

Thomas George Stansbury

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7340819 Welch Regiment

Gordon Napier Armit

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

13667 New Zealand Infantry

Richard George Byrde

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

68081 Welch Regiment

Richard R. Wagner

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

PAL/13601 Pioneer Corps

Henry Alexander “Harry” Knight

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

35736 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Henry James Butler

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6244 SERJEANT H. J. BUTLER N. Z. INFANTRY 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

Charles Christopher Reilly

1913 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Ronald Ernest Bates

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX11170 Australian Infantry

Cyril Michael Wallen

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2927 CORPORAL N. Z. INFANTRY

Unknown Sailer Of the 39/45 War

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Hartley Stephen Fielding

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

194590 Leicestershire Regiment

John Leslie Fletcher

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4769 New Zealand Infantry

George William Bristow

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

12482 New Zealand Medical Corps

Cyril Leslie Bassett

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

CH/X 100904 Royal Marines

R. H. Wood

1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

SE/18729 Army Veterinary Corps

Jeffice Alexander Millar

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

SX1160 Royal Australian Artillery

Leonard Snow

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT 4863457 PRIVATE L. SNOW THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGT. 27TH MAY 1941 AGE 27 †

Wilfred George McDonagh

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6067 New Zealand Army Service Corps

Frank Lionel Clarke

1908 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Leslie Kasper Arnold

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5314 New Zealand Infantry

John Earl Aitken

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Matua Petuha Wehi

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39802 PRIVATE M.P. WEHI N. Z. INFANTRY 23RD MAY 1941 AGE 23

John Douglas Jarvis

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

921009 FLIGHT SERGEANT J. D. JARVIS NAVIGATOR (BOMBER) ROYAL AIR FORCE AGE 26

Hakaraia Korako Takarangi

1901 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand 6085 Private H. K. Takarangi N. Z. Infantry 21st May 1941

Eric Gordon Harvey

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9185 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Gordon Douglas Brammar

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

EX/1708 MARINE G. D. BRAMMAR ROYAL MARINES 22ND MAY 1941 †

Amos David Williamson

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30012 New Zealand Infantry

James Craig

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

FLYING OFFICER J. CRAIG WIRELESS OPERATOR ROYAL AIR FORCE 22ND NOVEMBER 1945 † EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE OF A BELOVED SON AND BROTHER. MOTHER

J H Martin

1891

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Jeffrey Bryan

1921 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT J BRYAN PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 5TH SEPTEMBER 1942 AGE 21 † OUR LOVE AND REMEMBERANCE WILL LAST

Edgar Stanley Warmington

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Engineers

Thomas Robert LeClerc

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX2921 Australian Army Service Corps

A. M. Williamson

1918

Suda Bay War Cemetery

A. M. WILLIAMSON SECOND ENGINEER, MM. S.S. "CLAN GRAHAM" 4TH MARCH 1918 †

Ronald Exley Robinson

1920 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX.13200 PRIVATE R. E. ROBINSON 2/1 AUST. INF. BN. 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 21 THIS LIFE FOR OURS TO KEEP

Alexander Young

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Eric James Ferguson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

25143 New Zealand Infantry

Robert William Mitchell

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8514 PRIVATE R. W. MITCHELL N.Z. INFANTRY 24TH MAY 1941 AGE 24

Andrew Russell McCallum

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8312 New Zealand Infantry

Thomas Edward Hooper

1919 – 1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

654322 FLIGHT SERGEANT T. E. HOOPER AIR GUNNER ROYAL AIR FORCE AGE 23

Unknown Soldier Of the 39/45 war

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Moses Parry

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3967625 PRIVATE M. PARRY THE WELCH REGIMENT 23RD MAY 1941 †

Kenneth Julian Moses

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1474 SERJEANT K. J. MOSES New Zealand Artillery

James Vivian Hamilton

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

100414V W.O.I J.V. Hamilton S.A.A.F. 7th. May 1944 Age 19 Isaiah XL. 31 In cherished memory of our darling son and nephew James Vivian

Lilian Margaret Donaldson Rawlins

1912

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Sidney S. Lord

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

21802 NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS

John Sidney Rippington

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6849707 King's Royal Rifle Corps

James Aidan Longton

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX1090 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

Adam John Hoffman

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8361 PRIVATE A. J. HOFFMAN N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 28

Harry William Gaywood

1895 – 1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

K/35207 Royal Navy

Vernon William Henley

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7602944 Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Ah Ping

1918

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Richard Walker Heckels

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

324618 Gunner R. W. HECKELS 402 (Northumberland Hussars) Anti-Tank Regiment R.A. 24th May 1941 AGE 23 At the going down of the Sun and in the morning We will remember

Cecil Edward Goodhue

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Gordon David Sinclair

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4924 New Zealand Infantry

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