Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
📍 Athens, Πειραιάς, Grecia
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Phaleron War Cemetery lies a few kilometres to the south-east of Athens, at the boundary between old Phaleron district and Alimos-Kalamak district, on the coast road from Athens to Vouliaghmen. The easiest means of reaching the cemetery is by the coastal tram, which takes about 35 minutes from the terminus at Syntagma Square on route 5 towards Glyfada. Alight at Pikrodafni, a stop about 200 metres beyond the cemetery, from where it can be easily seen. The Athens Memorial stands in the cemetery. The site of what is now Phaleron War Cemetery was chosen originally by the 4th Division as a burial ground for Commonwealth casualties of the Greek Civil War (December 1944-February 1945). Subsequently, the military authorities, in conjunction with the Greek Government and the Army Graves Service, decided that it would be the most suitable site for a Second World War cemetery for the whole mainland of Greece. The 23rd and 24th Graves Registration Units and the 21st and 22nd Australian War Graves Units worked together to bring in graves of the 1941 campaign from the battlefields, temporary military cemeteries and from various civil cemeteries. There are now 2029 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 596 of the burials are unidentified. Special memorials commemorate casualties known to have been interred in certain groups of graves in the cemetery, but whose individual graves cannot be precisely located within these groups. Other special memorials commemorate casualties re-buried in the cemetery from original graves which, owing to the destruction of local records, could not be identified. Also within the cemetery are: The Phaleron Cremation Memorial, commemorating 74 men of the army of undivided India who died during the campaigns in Greece and Crete during the Second World War and who were accorded the last rite required by their religion - committal to fire; the Athens Memorial, commemorating nearly 3000 members of the land forces of the Commonwealth who lost their lives during the campaigns in Greece and Crete in 1941 and 1944-1945, in the Dodecanese Islands in 1943-1945 and in Yugoslavia in 1943-1945, and who have no known grave; and, in the north-east corner of the cemetery, a plot containing the graves of servicemen and civilians who after serving in the Crimean War, died in Greece, and were buried in the Anglo-French Crimean Cemetery, New Phaleron. The graves were moved in 1966 when that cemetery could no longer be maintained.
Defuncți (4.499)
Palaniandi
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Giani
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Bhunda
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Indian Signal Corps
Anthony
1944
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Arumugam
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Murugesan
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Bindu
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Mangal
1944
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
10th Baluch Regiment
Lal
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
12th Frontier Force Regiment
Doraiswami
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Jaganathan
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Indian Engineers
Dunia
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Indian Pioneer Corps
Rafi
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Amir-ud-Din
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Gura
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Indian Pioneer Corps
Sheraz-ul-Akbar
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Munshi
1944
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Corps of Military Police (India)
C. A. Anastass
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Cyprus Regiment
Anastassios A. Aristidou
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Army Service Corps
Reginald Aaron
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Alfred A. Ashington
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers
Alfred A. Atkinson
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
Shinde Abajirao
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
A. Abbott
1948
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
19189107 Private A. Abbott The Suffolk Regiment 2nd. July 1948
Musa Abdallah Radwan
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers
Aziz Abdel Abdel
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers
Satar Abdul
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Mutalib Abdul
1944
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Indian Army Ordnance Corps
Mahmoud Abdul Abdallah
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers
Abdulhadi-El-Daghili Abdullah
1944
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Pioneer Corps
El Abed Mahmoud
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Pioneer Corps
Alfred A. Bennett
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
M Abindnago
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Anthony A Blackstock
1919 – 1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Australian Infantry
Robert Abraham Davies
1915 – 1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Andrew A Brand
1944
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Alfred A Brimblecombe
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Artillery
Albert A Brumby
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Army Service Corps
Albert Abson
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
Ali Abu Hassan
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Pioneer Corps
Eid Abu-Nadi Awad
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Pioneer Corps
Rashid Abu-Salem Khamis
1944
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Pioneer Corps
Alexandros A Chrysostomou
1945
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Cyprus Regiment
Alexander A Common
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers
Avraam A Constanti
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Cyprus Regiment
Arthur A Cope
1914 – 1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Leicestershire Regiment
Richard Adair
1923 – 1944
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Edward Adam Moore
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Artillery
John Adams
1922 – 1946
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
5576962 CRAFTSMAN J. V. ADAMS R.E.M.E. 22ND OCTOBER 1946 AGE 24 IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON JOHN. ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS. MUM, DAD, KITTY
Albert A Davies
1943
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
Robert Addison “Bob” Towgood
1915 – 1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Flight Lieutenant R. A. Towgood (of Canada) Pilot Royal Air Force 5th February 1941 Age 26 (Cross) Duty well performed
John Addison Robinson
1920 – 1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers
Antonis A Demetriou
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Cyprus Regiment
Andrew A Dickson
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Hassan Adili Ibrahim
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers
Frank Adnitt Caunt
1915 – 1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
2nd Lieutenant F.A. Caunt Royal Army Service Corps 26th. April 1941 Age 26 "For what we cannot He can see And in His love He safe will be"
Arthur A Drayton
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Army Dental Corps
Fred Adshead
1908 – 1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers
Stanley A. Dunnage
1948
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
14032456 Driver S.A. Dunnage R.E.M.E. 13th. January 1948 Age 21 Their stars go down to rise Upon some fairer shore
Abraham A Elimelech
1941
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial
Royal Engineers