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)

John James Nicholson

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX7778 Australian Infantry

Mervyn George Davies

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6023644 Leicestershire Regiment

John Hawke

1900 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX 27838 GUNNER J. HAWKE 3 AUST. LT. A/A RGT. 16TH MAY 1941 AGE 41 † LEST WE FORGET

Archibald McCosh Ross

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

14688 Lance Corporal A. McC. ROSS NZ Infantry 25th May 1941 Age 23

Harry Victor Ellerker

1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Frederick Arthur Crosby

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4745486 CQMS F. A. CROSBY THE YORK & LANCASTER REGT. 28th MAY 1941 AGE 26 Thoughts of you Are with me yet. Years may pass But I'll never forget

Frank William Sirett

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2711 PRIVATE F. W. SIRETT N. Z. INFANTRY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 36 †

Tom Ronaldson Waddell

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

George Vincent Simson

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

LIEUTENANT G. V. SIMSON ROYAL TANK REGIMENT ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 24 † LOVED SON OF COLONEL AND MRS. SIMSON HE DIED TO SAVE US FROM TYRANNY

Walton Frederick McCarthy

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

20242 New Zealand Artillery

Edgar Peter Taylor

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7518510 Royal Army Medical Corps

Moslyn Harper Hubbard

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

20539 New Zealand Engineers

Frederick John Longley

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6848239 RIFLEMAN KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS †

Kenneth Joseph Sandbrook

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6559 DRIVER K. J. SANDBROOK N. Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS

Kenneth Whetton

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7518455 Royal Army Medical Corps

Charles Brown

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX1013 Australian Infantry

Reginald Ernest Twomey

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1603221 WARRANT OFFICER R.E. TWOMEY PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 22ND NOVEMBER 1945 AGE 22 † FROM OUR HAPPY HOME AND CIRCLE GOD HAS TAKEN ONE WE LOVED TO A NOBLER REST ABOVE

Trevor Ernest Lauder

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

29586 New Zealand Infantry

Alan George Johnston

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3178 New Zealand Infantry

Colin James Green

1918 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Corps of Signals

Keith Stewart Wedgewood

1915 – 1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

401260 Royal Australian Air Force

Jack Chandler

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1608738 GUNNER J. CHANDLER ROYAL ARTILLERY 12TH JUNE 1941 AGE 27 †

Arthur Bernard “Bernie” Atkins

1920 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

14732 PRIVATE A. B. ATKINS N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 21 †

Henry Irving

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

29342 PRIVATE H. IRVING N. Z. INFANTRY 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 22 †

Frederick Arthur Williams

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

22563 New Zealand Infantry

George Palmer West

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Leicestershire Regiment

Thomas Henry Ferguson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3959703 Welch Regiment

Eric Millet

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

J. Puddephatt

1900

Suda Bay War Cemetery

J. Puddephatt Able Seaman, RN. H.M.S. "Hazard" 4th. May 1900

Mark Morgan Coleman

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6732 New Zealand Infantry

Richard Harold Martin

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NOR TIME, NOR SPACE, NOR HUMAN POWERS, YOUR GOD-LIKE SPIRIT CAN CONFINE

Cyril Walter McDonagh

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9213 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

Albert Ernest Knaggs

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1140131 Gunner A. E. KNAGGS Royal Artillery 18th December 1944 AGE 22 To a beautiful life Came a sudden end He died as he lived Everybody's friend

Robert Joseph Ling

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

23799 New Zealand Infantry

Everard Meakin Collington

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

551408 L. CPL E. M. COLLINGTON ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS

Walter Edmund Doole

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Kenneth David Higgins

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

K. D. Higgins Supply Assistant, RN. P/MX 65122 H.M.S. "Gloucester" 2nd May 1941 Age 25 A devoted son, husband, father At rest. Loving memories, Ken dear Good night

Reginald Frank Wildash

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

16161 TROOPER R. F. WILDASH N. Z. DIVISIONAL CAVALRY REGT. N. Z. ARMOURED CORPS 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 29 †

Albert Frederick Smith

1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

172941 PILOT OFFICER A. F. SMITH WIRELESS OPERATOR / AIR GUNNER ROYAL AIR FORCE 19TH NOVEMBER 1943 AGE 35 †

Joseph Alexander Goyer

1918 – 1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Pilot Officer J.A. Goyer Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Royal Canadian Air Force 3rd. February 1944

Burnby Hardy

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

20023 CAPTAIN B. HARDY N. Z. ARTILLERY 1ST JUNE 1941 AGE 30 † NEW ZEALAND

Norman Murray MacGibbon

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30343 PRIVATE New Zealand Infantry

Frederick Sidaway

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4746562 York and Lancaster Regiment

Owen Cole

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Believed to be 20778 Gunner O. Cole N.Z. Artillery 4th. September 1941 Age 23

Edward Vincent

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3967485 Welch Regiment

Leonard Fountain

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6485 WO. II (SSM) Royal Armoured Corps

Leslie Andrew Watson

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

13626 PRIVATE N. Z. MEDICAL CORPS AGE 27

Sidney Kenyon

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

P/KX 78300 Royal Navy

Leonard Mayhew

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6847470 RIFLEMAN L. MAYHEW THE RANGERS (9TH BN. K.R.R.C.) 1ST JUNE 1941 AGE 21 † NOT GOODBYE, BUT ADIEU. THAT IS MY MESSAGE, LEN; GOD BLESS YOU. HILDA

Francis James Sutherland

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9802 PRIVATE N. Z. INFANTRY

William Joseph Evans

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

WX2502 Australian Infantry

Evan Campbell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

33928 New Zealand Infantry

William George Lindsay

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

29678 New Zealand Infantry

George John Draper

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6023857 PRIVATE G. J. DRAPER THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGT. 23RD MAY 1941 AGE 26 † HE DIED TO ATONE FOR SINS NOT HIS OWN

Joseph J. Hoterene

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

39332 New Zealand Infantry

Leslie William Sammons

1909 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX14183 Australian Infantry

George Francis Hill

1917 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX11078 Australian Infantry

Stanley John Green

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7158 New Zealand Infantry

John Hamilton

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Buried near this spot 2758306 L. Cpl. J. Hamilton The Black Watch 24th May 1941 Age 26 For what we have of freedom still We owe to their heroic skill Sadly missed

W. J. Gruitt

1896

Suda Bay War Cemetery

W.J. Gruitt Stoker, RN. H.M.S. "Hood" 20th. June 1896

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