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)

Richard Scott Lawrence

1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

John George Alistair Hamilton

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Captain J.G.A. Hamilton The Black Watch 28th. May 1941 Age 27 He gave His life for his country His heart to his home And his soul to God

John Wright

1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

88664 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT J. WRIGHT NAVIGATOR ROYAL AIR FORCE 19TH NOVEMBER 1943 AGE 24 †

Eric Wilson Sherborne

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9477 N. Z. Machine Gun Battalion

Kenneth Josse

1925 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Merchant Navy

Dick Hakaraia

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39351 New Zealand Infantry

Alan Linnell Taylor

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

119327 Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Edwin Hilton Kerr

1908 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

32293 Lance Corporal E. H. Kerr N. Z. Army Service Corps 22nd May 1941 age 33 [A fern with New Zealand written underneath, all within a cross]

James John Robertson

1896 – 1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Naval Reserve

Robert David Stephenson

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2915 New Zealand Infantry

Sydney Alfred Purnell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4009 WARRANT OFFICER New Zealand Infantry

William Haig Amner

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Thomas Arthur Scotthorne

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1527580 GUNNER T. A. SCOTTHORNE ROYAL ARTILLERY †

Charles Stanley Hemmingson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3206 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Francis Rodney Shannon

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

20457 New Zealand Engineers

Thomas Eustace O'Brien

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

15874 PRIVATE T.E. O'BRIEN N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 25 †

Sydney Arthur Webb

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Reginald James Mathews

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

22996 N. Z. ARTILLERY AGE 24

Albert Arthur Stockley

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

29829 N. Z. INFANTRY

George Lushington Gould

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6850332 King's Royal Rifle Corps

George Augustine M. Sheridan

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5502361 CORPORAL G. A. M. SHERIDAN HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 20 † "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"

George Clark Sisterson

1909 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2908 N. Z. INFANTRY

Edgar Arthur Richardson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

29808 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

R T Forrester

1892

Suda Bay War Cemetery

William W. Fardoe

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7361177 Royal Army Medical Corps

Francis William Petty

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1462236 Royal Artillery †

Edward John Keeble

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5132 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Australian Soldier Of the 39/45 War

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Phillip Percival Nelson

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX616 GUNNER P. P. NELSON Royal Australian Artillery

Herbert H. Pilsbury

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1921050 Royal Engineers

Norman Maitland Watermeyer

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

CAPTAIN N. M. WATERMEYER S. A. A. F. 3RD FEBRUARY 1944

Tom T. John

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3964746 Welch Regiment

Eric William Ford

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX7749 PRIVATE Australian Infantry

Charles Penneyston

1901 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

293169 CORPORAL C. PENNEYSTON ROYAL AIR FORCE 23RD MAY 1941 AGE 40 † AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING I REMEMBER YOU, DEAR. WIFE EVA

Stanley Norman Jones

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

21057 New Zealand Artillery

Toka Rarangi Poa

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39197 New Zealand Infantry

Norman John McLeod

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5157 New Zealand Infantry

Alfred Hamann

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Raymond Wallace Watson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8164 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Leslie Arthur Wilson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

903847 Royal Artillery

William Garner

1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Mercantile Marine

George Richardson Haugh

1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1289206 Sergeant G. R. HAUGH Observer Royal Air Force 23rd November 1942

John Crosbie

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

King's Own Scottish Borderers

James Patterson Baird

1900 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX23840 Australian Infantry

Frank McDavitt

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30536 PRIVATE F. MC DAVITT N. Z. INFANTRY 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 35

Charles Jack Milne

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX2454 PRIVATE C. J. MILNE AUST. INF. 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 22 † WITH TENDER LOVE AND DEEP REGRET WE WHO LOVED WILL NEVER FORGET

Thomas Johnstone Devlin

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Clyde Gilray Laird

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3009 New Zealand Infantry

Francis F. Liddell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

PO/X100215 Royal Marines

Wilson Martin

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8799 New Zealand Infantry

Robert Ernest Hill

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3791 Private R. E. Hill N.Z. Infantry 2nd June 1941 age 26 [A fern with New Zealand written underneath, all within a cross]

John Douglas Mackenzie

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2066942 ROYAL ARTILLERY

Raymond Cecil Moorey

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX2318 L. CPL R. C. MOOREY Australian Infantry

Andrew Bannockburn Gillespie

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX12419 Australian Infantry

Charles Edward J. Ousley

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

PILOT OFFICER C. E. J. OUSLEY PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 28TH FEBRUARY 1945 AGE 23 † GOOD NIGHT, HEART'S DEAREST. WE'LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING. MUM. DAD. ELSIE. AND GWEN.

J. E. King

1925

Suda Bay War Cemetery

J.E. King Boy. RN. J. 109168 H.M.S. "Iron Duke" 15th October 1925

John Charles Fraser Robertson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2754195 L.CPL. J. C. F. ROBERTSON CORPS OF MILITARY POLICE 16TH-24TH MAY 1941 AGE 25 †

Harold Arthur Colbourn

1946

Suda Bay War Cemetery

SUB-LIEUTENANT (E) H. A. COLBOURN, RNVR. H. M. S. "CAPTIVE" 2ND FEBRUARY 1946 AGE 45 † BELOVED HUSBAND OF ELLA MARY AND FATHER OF TREVOR. ALWAYS REMEMBERED

Michael Anthony Fitzgerald

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX668 PRIVATE Australian Infantry

New Zealand Soldier Of the 39/45 War

Suda Bay War Cemetery

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