Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

📍 Parku i Madh (Grand Park), Tiranë, Albania

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About the cemetery

Commonwealth War Graves - Tirana Park Following the end of the war in Europe, an Army Graves Registration Unit entered Albania with the task of concentrating the remains of Commonwealth Servicemen, into a site chosen in the capital, Tirana. Due to the political situation in the country, this task could not be completed, though 52 sets of remains were recovered in the short time available. Eventually, in 1955, after repeated requests to enter the country were refused, the Commission took the decision to commemorate the 38 identified casualties on special memorials erected in Phaleron War Cemetery in Greece. This remained thus until 1994, when a change in the political situation in Albania allowed a Commission representative access for the first time. He discovered that the original individual burials had been moved by the Communist authorities to an unmarked collective grave located under a path near the university buildings in Tirana. At the beginning of 1995, the 38 special memorials were removed from Phaleron and re-erected as close as possible to the site of the mass grave, in an area designated the Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery. In 1998, following a study of the Graves Registration unit files, it was possible for the Commission's records staff to confirm the identities of a further seven casualties previously buried in Tirana War Cemetery as unknowns. There is also 1 special memorial here, an alternative commemoration to a lost grave in Shepr, Albania. Of interest is the red granite slab on which is mounted the years and in Albanian and English, the purpose of the monument. The slab formerly covered the grave of Enver Hoxha, former leader of Albania when he was buried in a place of honor in Martyrs' Cemetery (Varrezat e Deshmoreve). In 1991 he fell from grace and was moved to an unmarked grave in another cemetery. His marker was reused in the Commonwealth memorial.

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Locality: Tiranë
Parku i Madh (Grand Park)
GPS: 41.31441, 19.82176

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Deceased (48)

John George Douglas

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

George Gardner

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Edward Drake Tennant

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Australian Air Force

James Valentine Salt

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Marines

Eric Borlase Childs

1940

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force

Harold Gee

1920 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)

Sidney George Roberts

1943

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Durham Light Infantry

Michael Stuart Macpherson

1919 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Marines

Herbert Aveyard

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN NOW YOU ARE GONE; WE WILL REMEMBER NO MATTER HOW LONG

Dennis Charles Murrell

1941

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Peter Beckwith Whitehouse

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Engineers

John Casey

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

Jack Ernest Moores

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Norfolk Regiment

George Alexander Parsons

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Somerset Light Infantry

William Jenkin Hiles

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Marines

Stephen Philip Martin-Leake

1906 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Alan Macdonald Sennett

1921 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

Ronald Pincher

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Marines

Gordon Edward Layzell

1912 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

South Lancashire Regiment

Ronald Edwin Stanley

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Alexander Barr

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

Alfred John Clarke

1921 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Artillery

Harold Williams

1943

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

James Sidney Bain

1912 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Marines

Peter Victor Waddell

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Australian Air Force

Francis Cecil Burlefinger

1918 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Norman Swanney

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

Wilfred Ellam

1940

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force

Alfred Careless

1913 – 1943

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

David William Rockingham

1922 – 1943

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Corps of Signals

John George Stewart

1940

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force

George Newcombe Brooks

1940

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

George Stephen Pratt

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Marines

William James St Ange

1920 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Marines [service ID:] PO/X 114352

James Albert Coyle

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Artillery

Peter Twiddy

1921 – 1943

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Aged 22 years

Stanley Newman

1941

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force)

Gareth Bernard Banting

1912 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Army Chaplains' Department

Harold Victor Button

1922 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Tank Regiment R.A.C.

Fran Gjergj Dardha

1948 – 2015

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

James Leo Devine

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Richard Nigel Cullen

1917 – 1941

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force

Dennis Hilton Potter

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Australian Air Force

Donald Stott

1940

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force

Desmond Maurice Turner

1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

William Tubberdy

1940

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force

Victor John Morgan

1940

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls

1911 – 1944

Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery

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