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)

Bryan Wolsey Kain

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7406 SERJEANT New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion

Harold Gilchrist

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Frederick Watson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2754395 Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Leslie Francis Atwell

1920 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX42541 Royal Australian Engineers

Esmond Theodore Taylor

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

11633 N. Z. INFANTRY

George Royatt Bremner

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

25501 New Zealand Artillery

David Hone Kerei Matahaere Parata

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

35998 Private D. H. K. M. Parata N. Z. Infantry 24th May 1941 age 29 [A fern with New Zealand written underneath, all within a cross]

Victor Sisarich

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5225 New Zealand Infantry

Gilbert Daniel Carey

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

EX/1713 Royal Marines

Thomas McWilliams

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2754694 PRIVATE T. MCWILLIAMS THE BLACK WATCH 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 25 †

Arthur Walter Armishaw

1900 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10148 PRIVATE A. ARMISHAW N. Z. INFANTRY 23RD MAY 1941 AGE 41

William George Tapp

1903 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Robert Crawford Wilson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10655 N. Z. INFANTRY

John Drumelzier Tweedy

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2ND LIEUTENANT J. D. TWEEDY THE BLACK WATCH 20TH MAY 1941 †

John Arthur Still

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

EX/1473 J.A. STILL ROYAL MARINES 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

William Walter Duncan

1920 – 1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

R.115792 Warrant Officer I W.W. Duncan Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Royal Canadian Air Force 16th. February 1944 Age 24 At the going down of the Sun and in the morning We will remember them

Ivan I Jones-Parry

1946

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Cheshire Regiment

Ivan Harold Peek

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

25320 PRIVATE I. H. PEEK N.Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 26 NEW ZEALAND †

Alfred Robertson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

551581 ROYAL ARTILLERY †

William David Parker

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9164 CORPORAL N. Z. Machine Gun Battalion

Colin George Firth

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

33890 PRIVATE C. G. FIRTH N. Z. INFANTRY 29TH MAY 1941 AGE 23

Thomas T. Sims

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4857929 Leicestershire Regiment

Hugh Rogers Marshall

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Colin John Elvy

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Robert Rankin

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

15580 New Zealand Infantry

Orpen Boyd Moriarty

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

CAPTAIN O. B. MORIARTY 2/1 AUST. INF. BN. 22ND MAY 1941 AGE 34 †

Ronald Dougald Campbell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

22241 LIEUTENANT R. D. CAMPBELL N. Z. INFANTRY 26TH MAY 1941 AGE 32 † NEW ZEALAND

Francis John McGrath

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

31416 PRIVATE F. J. MC GRATH N.Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 24 †

Henry Dickson Ingram Moody

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX880 PRIVATE H. D. I. MOODY 2/11 AUST. INF. BN. 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

Herbert Frederick Scott

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2609 New Zealand Infantry

Lewis Robert Ridling

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30556 PRIVATE L. R. RIDLING N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 22 †

Henry Russell Hopley

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4324 New Zealand Army Service Corps

Allen Bannister

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

ALIAS

Ernest Henry Hartrey

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1316863 Flight Sergeant E. H. HARTREY Air Gunner Royal Air Force 22nd November 1945

Francis Cuthbert Vale

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX1160 Australian Infantry

Howard Ernest Clay

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

13778 New Zealand Medical Corps

Augustus Greenwell Smith

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

P/J 2609 ROYAL NAVY

Carl Wagner

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Cyril Godfrey Ericksen

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2824 SERJEANT C. G. ERICKSON N. Z. INFANTRY 27TH MAY 1941 AGE 23

Trevor John Hoggard

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

21440 New Zealand Infantry

Geoffrey Kiver Fussell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2618 CAPTAIN N. Z. INFANTRY

Ranga Raharuhi

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39437 New Zealand Infantry

Evan William Walters

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

551094 Royal Armoured Corps

Reuben Prendergast

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

14823 PRIVATE R. PRENDERGAST N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 21 †

Patrick Joseph Snell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6023794 Leicestershire Regiment

Esme Howard

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Bernard B. Wrigley

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5256 N. Z. INFANTRY

John J. Murray

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

EX/1711 MARINE J. J. MURRAY ROYAL MARINES 20TH MAY 1941 †

Harold George Veal

1907 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX2276 Royal Australian Artillery

Geoffrey Walters Smith

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

12051 CORPORAL New Zealand Armoured Corps

Thomas Fyfe

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Francis Paul Bayly

1916 – 1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

407402 Royal Australian Air Force

Harold Charles Hulme

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5381 CORPORAL H. C. HULME N. Z. INFANTRY 26TH MAY 1941 AGE 27

Vincent Bernard King

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

33192 New Zealand Engineers

John Joseph O'Neill

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6572 New Zealand Infantry

Frederick Arthur Costan

1909 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2100061 GUNNER F. A. COSTAN ROYAL ARTILLERY 27TH MAY 1941 AGE 32 †

Alexander Robert Dewar

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

12701 DRIVER New Zealand Army Service Corps

James Alfred Hudson

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX9923 PRIVATE Australian Infantry

Francis Henry Kirkwell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Buried near this spot Captain F. H. Kirkwell The Leicestershire Regt. 26th May 1941 Age 35 In glad thanksgiving for his life, In proud remembrance of his death

George Leslie Dudley

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX 2598 Australian Infantry

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