RIP.LIVE
Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

📍 Athens, Πειραιάς, Grecia

4.498
Deceased
67.110
Views
0
Photos
Grecia
Country

About the cemetery

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.

Contact & location

Share the cemetery

RIP.LIVE

QR code

Scan to open the cemetery page. You can place it at the entrance or on an information board.

Download QR

Deceased (4.498)

Leonard L Pickersgill

Leonard L Pickersgill

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Leslie Sydney Ernest Rash

Leslie Sydney Ernest Rash

1915 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Has Ahmad Mohamad

Has Ahmad Mohamad

1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Pioneer Corps

Thomas Frederick Harrison

Thomas Frederick Harrison

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Guy Inglis Jerdein

Guy Inglis Jerdein

1940

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

PILOT IN 211 SQDN. CRASHED 20 MILES NORTH OF LAMIA RETURNING FROM NIGHT SORTIE

George William Walshaw

George William Walshaw

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Armoured Corps

John Rollo Large

John Rollo Large

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Christian Charles Norgaard

Christian Charles Norgaard

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

John William Sankey

John William Sankey

1909 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Alan John Bamford

Alan John Bamford

1918 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Edward Barnes Morris

Edward Barnes Morris

1914 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

SX. 370 GUNNER E. B. MORRIS 2/3 AUST. FD. RGT. 27TH APRIL 1941 AGE 27 WE WILL REMEMBER

Thomas Logie

Thomas Logie

1905 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

James J Howe

James J Howe

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

A Soldier

A Soldier

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

A SOLDIER OF THE 1939 - 1945 WAR KNOWN UNTO GOD

Duncan D Whyte

Duncan D Whyte

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Charles John Smith

Charles John Smith

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Leslie Arthur Derrett

Leslie Arthur Derrett

1906 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Army Service Corps

Charles John Robson

Charles John Robson

1914 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Joseph Cape

Joseph Cape

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Valentine Thomas Hitchings

Valentine Thomas Hitchings

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

1827 Bombardier V.T. Hitchings N.Z. Artillery 18th. April 1941 Age 30

Michael George O'Callaghan

Michael George O'Callaghan

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Infantry

Robert R Walker

Robert R Walker

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Michael Bircumshaw

Michael Bircumshaw

1939 – 1962

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

23684334 Private M. Bircumshaw The Parachute Regiment 21st. September 1962 Age 23

Stanley S Foster

Stanley S Foster

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Richard R Sowery

Richard R Sowery

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Veterinary Corps

Alexander Henry Scott

Alexander Henry Scott

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

2001444 Sapper A.H. Scott Royal Engineers 3rd. September 1941 Age 21 "That there's some corner of a foreign field, That is forever England"

David James Robertson

David James Robertson

1907 – 1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Artillery

Gerard Eric Baker

Gerard Eric Baker

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

John Cunningham

John Cunningham

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

4460381 L.Cpl J. Cunningham Parachute Regiment Army Air Corps 12th. October 1944 Age 27 Sacred heart of Jesus Have mercy on the soul of John R.I.P.

Dad Hukam

Dad Hukam

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Corps of Military Police (India)

Robert R Little

Robert R Little

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Arthur Albert Wilby

Arthur Albert Wilby

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Reginald Maurice Blay

Reginald Maurice Blay

1919 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

9206 Private R.M. Blay N.Z. Infantry 30th May 1941 Age 22

I Pavlou

I Pavlou

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Chand Ram Phul

Chand Ram Phul

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

6th Rajputana Rifles

Douglas Kenneth Common

Douglas Kenneth Common

1918 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Evan Thomas Lewis

Evan Thomas Lewis

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Welch Regiment

James J Thomas

James J Thomas

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Douglas Stanley Maude Munro

Douglas Stanley Maude Munro

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

2265 Sapper D.S.M. Munro N.Z. Engineers 27th. April 1941 Age 22

Oliver O Greenough

Oliver O Greenough

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Charles Maurice Wilds

Charles Maurice Wilds

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Armoured Corps

Stanley Augustus Levey

Stanley Augustus Levey

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

John George Evans

John George Evans

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Henare Reweti

Henare Reweti

1913 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Infantry — Reweti H.

Edward E. Wright

Edward E. Wright

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

Alfred A Warboy

Alfred A Warboy

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Thomas T Daley

Thomas T Daley

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Salam Mustafa Abdel

Salam Mustafa Abdel

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

Reginald Thomas James Sutcliffe

Reginald Thomas James Sutcliffe

1910 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

WX. 2421 PRIVATE R. T. SUTCLIFFE 2/11 AUST. INF. BN. 24TH APRIL 1941 AGE 31 FROM BOYHOOD PATRIOTISM WAS HIS RULING PASSION

Stanley S Roberts

Stanley S Roberts

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Durham Light Infantry

Harry H Cooke

Harry H Cooke

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Peter Anthony Pilkington

Peter Anthony Pilkington

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Archibald Evelyn Keith

Archibald Evelyn Keith

1910 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

1230 Lance Corporal A,E. Keith N.Z. Divisional Cavalry Regiment 26th. June 1941 Age 31

William Gordon Field

William Gordon Field

1923 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Walter Stewart

Walter Stewart

1919 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Ivor Thomas

Ivor Thomas

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

14224085 GUNNER I. THOMAS ROYAL ARTILLERY 11TH DECEMBER 1944 AGE 22 “THE LORD SHALL FIGHT FOR YOU AND YE SHALL HOLD YOUR PEACE”

Vincent V Pelleschi

Vincent V Pelleschi

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Stuart Raymond Page

Stuart Raymond Page

1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

4967865 WO.II (BSM) S.R. Page Royal Artillery 9th. October 1943 Age 34 W.O. = Warrant Officer B.S.M. = Battery Sergeant Major

F Morrison

F Morrison

1926 – 1947

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

14132476 Private F. Morrison Royal Army Medical Corps 26th. July 1947 Age 21 "Thy will be done"

Daniel Lionel Smith

Daniel Lionel Smith

1911 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

WX. 302 PRIVATE D. L. SMITH 2/11 AUST. INF. BN. 1ST MAY 1941 AGE 29 DIED OF WOUNDS. REST IN PEACE

Pagina 34 din 75

Hartă

Se încarcă harta…