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)

Wiremu “Bill” Ruru

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Laurence Olsen

1909 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

William Robert Dolan

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX8152 Royal Australian Artillery

C. Taylor

1897

Suda Bay War Cemetery

C. Taylor Signalman, RN. H.M.S. "Revenge" 27th. July 1897

John Edward Elliott

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4449749 Durham Light Infantry

Sydney Walter Underhay

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

15198 PRIVATE S. W. UNDERHAY N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

Arthur Albert Adderson

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7751 DRIVER A. A. ADDERSON N. Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS 27TH APRIL 1941 AGE 28 †

Joseph Bede Francis Lundon

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4471 DRIVER J. B. F. LUNDON N. Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 27 †

Andrew Brown Gillan

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

549579 Royal Air Force

Harold George Keane

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2598 PRIVATE New Zealand Infantry

Frederick Johnson

1912 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10844 Private F. Johnson N. Z. Infantry 26th May 1941 age 28 [A fern with New Zealand written underneath, all within a cross]

Frank Thomas Wood

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX3883 Australian Infantry

Bartholomew James Burke

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

James Coll Alexander

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Army Service Corps

F G Read

1903

Suda Bay War Cemetery

John Joseph Henry Kilgour

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Army Service Corps

James Campbell MacLennan

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX890 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

John Francis Barnett

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3217 PRIVATE J.F. BARNETT N.Z. INFANTRY 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 25 †

Leo Vincent Bulford

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2696 WARRANT OFFICER II L. V. BULFORD N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 33 † NEW ZEALAND

Kenneth Butler Lamonby

1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

LIEUTENANT K. B. LAMONBY SPECIAL AIR SERVICE REGT. ARMY AIR CORPS 11TH JULY 1943 AGE 23 THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND

John Henry Kyle

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1486 GUNNER N. Z. ARTILLERY AGE 27

Reginald George Whorlow

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

873092 Royal Artillery

P. A. Psara

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3887 Cyprus Regiment

John Thomas Arlidge

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE

Douglas Allan Chalmers

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX12566 BOMBARDIER D. A. CHALMERS Royal Australian Artillery 28TH APRIL 1941 AGE 22 †

Roderick William Carrick

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

87 GUNNER Royal Australian Artillery

Harold Keith Masters

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10848 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Donald Henry Giles

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

33931 New Zealand Infantry

D “Darkie” Leach

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39160 PRIVATE D. LEACH N. Z. INFANTRY 23RD MAY 1941 AGE 22

James Rex Gear

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3203 New Zealand Infantry

Frederick Burton

1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Mercantile Marine

Henry Albert Dean

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

CH/X.947 MARINE H. A. DEAN ROYAL MARINES 17TH MARCH 1941 AGE 22 † ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING FATHER AND MOTHER

John James Moran

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4256652 L. SJT J. J. MORAN 102 (NORTHUMBERLAND HUSSARS) ANTI-TANK REGIMENT, R. A. 24TH MAY 1941 AGE 41 † FOR KING AND COUNTRY

Joseph Louis Garbanati

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

99818 Leicestershire Regiment

Ralph Hedley Bisson

1917

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Mercantile Marine

Edward Clarence Budden

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Reginald Victor Merrick

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX750 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

William Carl Erickson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

60002 New Zealand Engineers

James Norman Griffin

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX7124 Australian Infantry

John Rothwell Raymont

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX11257 Australian Infantry

Samuel Leslie Mooney

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3193 New Zealand Infantry

Francis Charles Dutfield

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4860504 PRIVATE F. C. DUTFIELD THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGT. 27TH MAY 1941 AGE 21 †

Harold William Suckling

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1475908 Royal Artillery

Prodromes Christofi

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

15200 Cyprus Regiment

Colin John Maxwell

1921 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX28802 Australian Infantry

Charles Henry Smith

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

William Russell McKerchar

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

15043 PRIVATE W. R. MCKERCHAR N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 30 †

Kemsley George Fridd

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

361700 Royal Air Force

Ronald John Humphreys

1912 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX15340 PRIVATE Australian Infantry

John James Piper

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

83571 Royal Artillery

William John Southworth

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2611 LIEUTENANT N. Z. INFANTRY

Victor Wallace Gilligan

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX7755 Australian Infantry

Neil Leo Wakelin

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6265 New Zealand Infantry

Edwin Norman Best

1912 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Francis James Lawson

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3050 LANCE CORPORAL F. J. LAWSON (LAUZANNE) N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 29 †

Leon Wall

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

L. VELGOLASKY SERVED AS 31988 PRIVATE L. WALL N. Z. MEDICAL CORPS 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 21

William Webster

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6833 N. Z. INFANTRY

Wiremu Puke Barrett Parete

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

25976 Private, W.P.B. Parete, N.Z. Infantry, 27th May 1941, Age 22

Robinson Edward Broadbent

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

11051 Private R.E. Broadbent N.Z. Infantry 26th. May 1941 Age 23

Jack Spencer Wilkins

1912 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

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