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)

Harold H. McCulloch

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX10183 PRIVATE Australian Army Service Corps

George Alfred Smith

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

846558 ROYAL ARTILLERY †

Andrew Mackay Sawdon Burnett

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

11589 PRIVATE A. M. BURNETT N. Z. INFANTRY 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 27 † NEW ZEALAND

Norman Robert Dann

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX503 Australian Infantry

Arthur Edward Dowsett

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX1869 Australian Infantry

Wilford John Lanfear

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

29585 PRIVATE W. J. LANFEAR N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 22 ✝

Arthur A. Hymers

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

551733 Royal Artillery

Reginald Victor Scaife

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

T/64570 Royal Army Service Corps

Robert Thomson Easton

1903 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

94326 CAPTAIN R. T. EASTON ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS 25TH MAY 1941

Henry Lee Robinson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9697 DRIVER H. L. ROBINSON N. Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 34 †

Phillip P. Hollands

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6847425 King's Royal Rifle Corps

Cyril Benjamin Hearn

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Hamiora H. Kereopa

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39365 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Thomas Murray Munro

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3053 PRIVATE T. M. MUNRO N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 33 †

Jack Leslie Friend

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8378 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Hector Campbell McDowall

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1240 CORPORAL H. C. McDOWALL N. Z. DIVISIONAL CAVALRY REGT N. Z. ARMOURED CORPS 24TH MAY 1941 AGE 31

Edward George Warner

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

25422 New Zealand Infantry

Arthur Shipton

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX9765 Australian Infantry

John Oriel Parker

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX3852 L. CPL J. O. PARKER Australian Infantry

Richard James Maxwell

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX1943 GUNNER R. J. MAXWELL Royal Australian Artillery 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 20 †

James Kay Milne

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4531 New Zealand Army Service Corps

George Tilton Davies

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4600 New Zealand Corps of Signals

Samuel Oldham

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8201 New Zealand Infantry

Percy Richings

1882 – 1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

P. RICHINGS STOKER 1ST CLASS RN 306006 H.M.S. "AZALEA" 5TH APRIL 1917 AGE 36 † HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE

Leonard Alfred Verdon

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10630 New Zealand Infantry 22 MAY 1941 AGE 30 †

C. J. Sherwood

1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

M/225119 Army Service Corps

Leslie Charles Giles

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

15775 New Zealand Infantry

John Leonard Roden Plimmer

1901 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

11716 MAJOR N. Z. MEDICAL CORPS AGE 40

Joseph Peters Hucks

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

322648 Royal Artillery

Ronald Leopold Martin

1907 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Robert Samuel W. Morris

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

PILOT OFFICER R. S. W. MORRIS AIR GUNNER ROYAL AIR FORCE 16TH FEBRUARY 1944 †

Oliver Dalziel

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

32365 PRIVATE O. DALZIEL N. Z. MACHINE GUN. BN. 24TH MAY 1941

Arthur Edward Oliphant

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX10066 BOMBARDIER A. E. OLIPHANT 2/3 AUST. RGT. 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 35

Henry James Scoltock

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7127 LIEUTENANT N. Z. INFANTRY

Henry Te Rupe “Sonny” Vercoe

1908 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

34877 Lieutenant H. Te R. Vercoe N. Z. Infantry 22nd May 1941 age 33 [A fern with New Zealand written underneath, all within a cross]

William Edward Hayden

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4772 LANCE CORPORAL New Zealand Infantry

William Arthur Mackinder

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

31335 New Zealand Army Service Corps

William Roy Rowe

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

20523 N. Z. INFANTRY

George Caleb Hodgson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

181655 Royal Army Service Corps

Douglas Whiteford Hislop

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

14215 New Zealand Infantry

Thomas Paterson McClair

1918

Suda Bay War Cemetery

MERCANTILE MARINE

Miles Harold Gedye

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3205 PRIVATE M. H. GEDYE N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 35 †

Edward Roy Monaghan

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX7582 PRIVATE Australian Infantry

David Nichol Whitteker

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

15385 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY AGE 21

Cyril John Bennett

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Edward Frank Lister Cooper

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Leslie Robert Leaver

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

852124 Royal Artillery

Ian George McNeilage

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

SX971 GUNNER Royal Australian Artillery

Harry Norman Pratt

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

EX/1967 MARINE H. N. PRATT ROYAL MARINES †

Frederick Albert Sawyer

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

945923 GUNNER F. A. SAWYER ROYAL ARTILLERY †

William George Slade

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6065 LIEUTENANT N. Z. INFANTRY

Dick Parker Hazlewood

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Buried near this spot 4856120 Private D. P. HAZLEWOOD The Leicestershire Regt. 27th May 1941 AGE 30

John J “Jack” Markham

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

GOD CALLED HIM HOME, HIS DUTY WAS DONE. AT REST

Alexander Duncan MacPhee

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX2656 L. CPL AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

William Jeremiah Porritt

1922 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

R.58432 Flight Sergeant W.J. Porritt, DFM Air Gunner Royal Canadian Air Force 6th. September 1942 Age 20 Missing But never forgotten

James Gordon MacDonald

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

33100 DRIVER New Zealand Army Service Corps

M. Friedland

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Lieutenant M. Friedland S.A.A.F. 7th. May 1944 Age 27 Recollections of your goodness help to fill an aching void in our hearts S.A.A.F. = South African Air Force