Suda Bay War Cemetery

📍 Chania, Σούδα, Grecia

780

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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)

Gordon Donald Laing

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

25233 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

David Rodericik Rollo

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

12815 PRIVATE D. R. ROLLO N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 †

Geoffrey Sanderson Hall

1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

FLYING OFFICER G. S. HALL PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE AGE 23

Gordon Hector Collinson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

22261 Private G.H. Collinson N.Z. Infantry 26th. May 1941 Age 36

Charles Clarence Till

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1334 N. Z. Infantry

Richard Maurice Baker

1908 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Ernest George Cope

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6850209 RIFLEMAN E. G. COPE THE RANGERS KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS 27TH MAY 1941 AGE 26 † REST IN PEACE HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE

Lawrence Edgar Mathews

1918 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

R.97534 Warrant Officer II L.E. Mathews Pilot Royal Canadian Air Force 23rd. November 1942 Age 24 Rest in peace Beloved son of Mary and Bert Mathews Trail, B.C. Canada

Nelson William Hirst

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

29671 New Zealand Infantry

Andrew Walter Burnaby Drayson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

LIEUTENANT (A) A. W. B. DRAYSON, RN. H. M. S. "GREBE" 13TH APRIL 1941 AGE 24 † "AND SO HE BRINGETH THEM UNTO THE HAVEN WHERE THEY WOULD BE." PSALM. CVII. 30

Reginald Charles Mayer

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX2059 PRIVATE AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY †

Lennie Joyce Birtles

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5387 New Zealand Infantry

William W. Muirhead

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9265 PRIVATE W. W. MUIRHEAD N. Z. INFANTRY 22ND MAY 1941 AGE 26 †

Norman Allen Flavell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4995 N. Z. Infantry

Eric Clarence Cox

1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Air Force

Frank F. Humphrey

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4343531 Royal Artillery

Horima Warana Matene

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39505 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

David Barnett

1902 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

MAJOR D. BARNETT 102 (NORTHUMBERLAND HUSSARS) ANTI-TANK REGIMENT, R.A. 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 39 †

F O Dew

1900

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Thomas T. Kelly

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8857 New Zealand Infantry

John Jack Bassett

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

John Henry May

1909 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX3179 Royal Australian Artillery

William James Rowswell

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX4052 Australian Infantry

Fred Jarvill

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Buried near this spot 3709745 Bombardier F. Jarvill Royal Artillery 23rd May 1941 Age 28 Shadows fall And I am all alone Thinking, wishing You were home. Dad and Dick

Leo L. Richards

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5217 New Zealand Infantry

James Leonard Newton

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX7142 CORPORAL J. L. NEWTON 2/7 AUST. INF. BN. 27TH MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

Louis Willis Moon

1918 – 1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

401011 WARRANT OFFICER L. W. MOON Royal Australian Air Force

Wilfred Ellis Dove

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Jack Tannahill

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Francis George Malloch

1941

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11376 New Zealand Infantry

Samuel Victor Sims

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3956623 Welch Regiment

Clifford C. Wilson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7265 CAPTAIN N. Z. INFANTRY

Andrew Strahorn

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX5428 Australian Infantry

Geoffrey Arthur Griffith

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

29638 PRIVATE G. A. GRIFFITH N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 36

Ralph Bastable

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Army Medical Corps

Robert Arthur Toms

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1875743 Royal Engineers

Simon Knocks

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

37444 PRIVATE New Zealand Infantry

Alick Douglas Fraser

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8286 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

George Frederick Quinn

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1543005 GUNNER Royal Artillery

Arthur A. Hyde

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

T/206706 Royal Army Service Corps

James Arthur McClements

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3019 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

John Ernest Withers

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Frederick Horace Neill

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1482 BOMBARDIER F. H. NEILL N. Z. ARTILLERY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

Ronald Harvey Gillies

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

12557 DRIVER New Zealand Army Service Corps

George Rose

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT 4447577 SERGEANT G. ROSE ROYAL ARTILLERY 22ND MAY 1941 AGE 30 † BELOVED HUSBAND OF MARY. "LIFE IS ETERNAL, LOVE IS IMMORTAL"

William Gordon Bain

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Edmond David Fleishman

1918 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Flying Officer E.D. Fleishman, AFM. Pilot Royal Canadian Air Force 23rd. November 1942

Royal Marine Of the 39/45 War

Suda Bay War Cemetery

John Henry Danderson

1907 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

W. Shears

1897

Suda Bay War Cemetery

W. Shears Ordinary Seaman, RN. H.M.S. "Forte" 26th. July 1897

Derick Robert Hardgrave

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5232 PRIVATE New Zealand Infantry

Francis F. Kinsella

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

890193 Royal Artillery

Robert McKay

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5389 PRIVATE R. MCKAY N. Z. INFANTRY 27TH MAY 1941 AGE 27 †

Bruce Cunningham Ewing

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9915 New Zealand Army Service Corps

Philip Edward Harwood

1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Robert R. Summerfield

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX492 PRIVATE R. SUMMERFIELD 2/11 AUST. INF. BN. 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 22 † RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL. OUR BROTHER.

Charles Desmond Holmes

1910 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX2493 Royal Australian Artillery

Rore Antonio Wellington

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7896 New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion

H. F. Wells

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

LIEUTENANT H. F. WELLS S. A. A. F. 7TH MAY 1944 AGE 28 † HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE EVER REMEMBERED BY MAMMY, TINKY, TOPPY, WALLY, DOUG. S. A. A. F. = South African Air Force

Herbert Leonard Pearson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6847749 King's Royal Rifle Corps

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