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)

Charles Henry Martin

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

22130 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 31 †

Robert Henry Pierce

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Merchant Navy

Thomas Victor Somerville

1887 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Captain T.V. Somerville D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. & Bar Royal Army Medical Corps 23rd. November 1941 Age 56 In arduis fidelis

Kenneth Roy Tidmarsh

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1321966 ROYAL AIR FORCE

Benjamin Henry Mosdell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

22689 PRIVATE B. H. MOSDELL N. Z. INFANTRY 23RD MAY 1941 AGE 28 †

Douglas Henry Neilson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30091 New Zealand Infantry

William Bernard “Bill” Spring

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

12296 PRIVATE W. B. SPRING N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 26 †

George McGibbon Bankier

1912 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

J. Lampard

1891

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Private, RMLI. J. Lampard H.M.S. "Collingwood" 10th. July 1891

William Joseph Gager

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Eric Edward Bowron

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

George Kemp

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6896154 King's Royal Rifle Corps

Ralph Morrison

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7236 LANCE CORPORAL R. MORRISON N. Z. MACHINE GUN. BN. 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

William Biggar Hossack

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4998 New Zealand Infantry

Archibald Knox Brown

1907

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Leonard Thomas Aplin

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3214 PRIVATE L. T. APLIN N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

Robert Noel Johnson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30095 New Zealand Infantry

Frank Walden

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4861712 Leicestershire Regiment

Unknown Airman Of the 39/45 War

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Eric Thomas H. Toner

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30225 N. Z. Army Service Corps

William Wylie Dunn

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2754675 Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Harold Francis Mitchell

1907 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX4080 Australian Infantry

Richard Alexander Black

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7011400 Corps of Military Police

Douglas Soutar

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

21870 SAPPER N. Z. ENGINEERS

William George Owen

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

874188 PRIVATE THE WELCH REGIMENT

Frank Rice

1914 – 1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

207374V W.O.I F. RICE S. A. A. F. 7TH MAY 1944 AGE 30 † HE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT, DYING IN THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY, THAT HONOUR MIGHT LIVE S. A. A. F. = South African Air Force

Thomas Henry Bird

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10293 New Zealand Infantry

Cecil William Tozer

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7085 New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion

Donald Owen “Don” Windybank

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Terrence Noel Gallagher

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

772724 FLIGHT SERGEANT T. N. GALLAGHER NAVIGATOR ROYAL AIR FORCE 22ND NOVEMBER 1945 AGE 20 † AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. MUMMY

William Blucher Sweetzir

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

PO/21917 MARINE W. B. SWEETZIR ROYAL MARINES 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 35 † UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

Sydney Wilfred Mills

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

EX/1788 Royal Marines

George Roylance Coombes

1920 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX14168 Australian Corps of Signals

John Mathew Ward

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

R. FLOYD SERVED AS 12461 PRIVATE J. M. WARD N. Z. MEDICAL CORPS 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 26 †

Percy Gosper

1904 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX2448 Australian Infantry

John Samuel Leith

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2471 New Zealand Infantry

Robert R. Kirkman

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5577 New Zealand Infantry

Robert Henry Mathewson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

32163 SAPPER N. Z. ENGINEERS AGE 23

Kenneth Leslie Adams

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

32194 SAPPER K. L. ADAMS N. Z. ENGINEERS 21ST AUGUST 1941 AGE 29 †

William Grahame Clarke

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

12975 New Zealand Infantry

Arthur Richard Brown

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

60221 New Zealand Army Service Corps

John James “Jack” Skilton

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8467 LANCE CORPORAL New Zealand Infantry

Leslie Clarence Herbert

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7935 LANCE CORPORAL N. Z. INFANTRY

Francis William James Green

1908 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX6115 Australian Infantry

William Peter Harding

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39344 PRIVATE W. P. HARDING N. Z. INFANTRY 22ND MAY 1941 AGE 26 † NEW ZEALAND

Sydney McCreith

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT PLY/X. 100478 MARINE S. MCCREITH ROYAL MARINES 24TH MAY 1941 AGE 30

John J. Kelly

1908 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX3877 CORPORAL Australian Infantry

Olav O. Hægland

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX903 PRIVATE Australian Infantry

Ernest Watson

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2656593 SERGEANT E. WATSON CORPS OF MILITARY POLICE 19TH JANUARY 1945 AGE 30 †

Vincent Arthur

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

33847 New Zealand Engineers

John Henry Horler

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

13659 New Zealand Infantry

John Murray

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

John Smith

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT PO/X 4724 MARINE J. SMITH ROYAL MARINES 26TH MAY 1941 †

Geoffrey Russell Adams

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

948583 Sergeant G.R. Adams Observer Royal Air Force 26th. May 1941

Pua Eparaima

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Frances Connor

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Merchant Navy

Wilson Ralph Johns

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

11070 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Kenneth Berry

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1463236 GUNNER K. BERRY ROYAL ARTILLERY 12TH JUNE 1941 AGE 20 † WORTHY OF REMEMBRANCE

John Hill McCurrach

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

T/126893 Royal Army Service Corps

Joseph J. MacFarlane

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3957535 PRIVATE THE WELCH REGIMENT AGE 27

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