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.

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Deceased (4.498)

Cecil C Coskin

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

Bohra Pundarikray

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Indian Army Ordnance Corps

Harold Keith Nash

1914 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Frederick Benjamin Andrews

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Alexander Terence O'Rourke

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Medical Corps

William George Walden

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

Percy Richmond Ward

1911 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

OX. 7113 Private P.R. Ward A.A.S.C. 6 Aust. Div 6th. November 1941 Age 30 "NOT JUST TODAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE I'LL REMEMBER" A.A.S.C. = Australian Army Service Corps

Donald Henry Pearson

1922 – 1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Norman John Thompson

1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Buried near this spot 7917570 Trooper N.J. Thompson 50th. Royal Tank Regiment Royal Armoured Corps 17th. August 1942 Age 28 In loving memory of my dear husband. To me a silent grief but God knew best

Harold Walter Lee

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Durham Light Infantry

Singh Dalbara

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

11th Sikh Regiment

Alexander A Kennedy

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

William Keith Venn Ellis

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Captain W.K.V. Ellis 11th. Sikh Regiment 17th. December 1944 Age 24 In loving memory "At the going down of the Sun and in the morning We will remember"

Clive Mason

1911 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

NX. 5902 PRIVATE C. MASON 2/4 AUST. INF. BN. 4TH MAY 1941 AGE 29 BELOVED HUSBAND OF DAISY AND FATHER OF GARRY AND ROBERT

Reginald John Dillon

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Joseph James Prosser

1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

941950 Gunner J.J. Prosser 11th. Regt. R.H.A. Hon. Artillery Company 17th. August 1942 Age 24 R.H.A. = Royal Horse Artillery

Arthur Leslie Donald Smith

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Royal Artillery

John William Charles Cousins

1914 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Reginald Frederick Wilch

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

James Mcdugal Mitchell

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Infantry

Willie W Turton

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

York and Lancaster Regiment

Percy P Ellis

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Ronald James Steffensen

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Engineers

John Eric Jones

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Robert Charles Jones

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Joseph Rudland Nelley

1922 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Joseph J Went

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

William Frederick Henry Mantle

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)

Australian Infantry

Benjamin Esmond Nicker

1908 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

SX. 403 BOMBARDIER B. E. NICKER 2/3 AUST. FD. RGT. 19TH APRIL 1941 AGE 33 LOVED BY ALL

Wilfred Llewellyn Mitchell

1910 – 1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

DEEP IN MY HEART A MEMORY IS KEPT OF A DEAR ONE I LOVED AND WILL NEVER FORGET

John Cameron Graham

1920 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Albert James Wright

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

Alban Raymond Carey

1907 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Clifford Taylor Overton

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Peter Harold Greenburgh

1923 – 1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Flying Officer P.H. Greenburgh Pilot Royal Air Force 17th. June 1944 Age 21 The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away

Royal Artillery

Andrew A McSHEE

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Sidney Frank Martin

1908 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

William Henry Sharp

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Abdulhadi-El-Daghili Abdullah

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Pioneer Corps

Harry H Swift

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

John Burke

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

James Kenneth Herdman

1900 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Herdman J. K.

Christopher James Kelly

1912 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Ernest George Morris

1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Buried near this spot

Victor Charles Hollingsbee

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)

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Deceased (4.498)

Cecil C Coskin

Bohra Pundarikray

Harold Keith Nash

Frederick Benjamin Andrews

Alexander Terence O'Rourke

William George Walden

Percy Richmond Ward

Donald Henry Pearson

Norman John Thompson

Harold Walter Lee

Singh Dalbara

Alexander A Kennedy

William Keith Venn Ellis

Clive Mason

Reginald John Dillon

Joseph James Prosser

Arthur Leslie Donald Smith

Leslie Cyril Moncur

Leslie William Taylor

Hedley Peter Stebbings

John William Charles Cousins

Henry Albert Kennedy

Walter James Lee

Henry Godfrey Burness

Reginald Frederick Wilch

James Mcdugal Mitchell

Willie W Turton

Percy P Ellis

Ronald James Steffensen

John Eric Jones

Robert Charles Jones

Joseph Rudland Nelley

Joseph J Went

William Frederick Henry Mantle

Robert Jackson

Patrick Ambrose Donnelly

Edward Gordon Turner

J B L Watt

Colin Frederick Johnston

Benjamin Esmond Nicker

Wilfred Llewellyn Mitchell

John Cameron Graham

Albert James Wright

Alban Raymond Carey

Clifford Taylor Overton

Peter Harold Greenburgh

Robert Hector De Laney

Leonard James Holliday

Claude Douglas Stuart

John J Driver

Andrew A McSHEE

Sidney Frank Martin

William Henry Sharp

Abdulhadi-El-Daghili Abdullah

Harry H Swift

John Burke

James Kenneth Herdman

Christopher James Kelly

Ernest George Morris

Victor Charles Hollingsbee

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