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)

Edward Yates Bolton

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Leslie Thomas Skinner

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Walter Alexander Brown

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

CH/X. 3768 Marine W.A. Brown, RM. H.M.S. "Nile" 14th. November 1944 Age 20 Fondest memories of a dear son. His loving mother, sisters and brothers

Frederick Kenneth Tearrell

1917 – 1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

George Francis Williams

1917 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

William Thomas Barnhouse

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Welch Regiment

Jack J Cope

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Ernest E Wilson

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Cyril Norman Lewis

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

William James Cull

1913 – 1943

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Salim Syoufi Salah

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

H P Simpson

1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Robin Gordon McDONALD

1900 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Augustus George Evans

1920 – 1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Frank Charles Norton Kingston

1920 – 1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

7345605 Sergeant F.C.N. Kingston Royal Army Medical Corps 24th. April 1944 Age 23

Islwyn I Thomas

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Welch Regiment

Singh Bakhtawar

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

John Ross Monro Hector

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Engineers

John J Rice

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

I. I. S. Osman

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Ronald George Coman

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Medical Corps

Arthur Taylor

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

A Soldier

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

A SOLDIER OF THE 1939 - 1945 WAR AN OFFICER 27TH-28TH APRIL 1941 KNOWN UNTO GOD

Thomas T Thomas

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Welch Regiment

Benjamin Charles Morrow Dickinson

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

3766268 WO.II (SSM) B.C.M. Dickinson Royal Engineers 14th. April 1941 Age 29 These then we honour: In fragrant earth buried Not in their own country But in peace

Daniel Maybin Blair

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

John J Hardy

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Joseph J Waters

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Medical Corps

Leonard Percival John Overington

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

Eric Collinson Nuttall

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Hussein Halil Hassan

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Cyprus Regiment

Robert Colin Spence

1917 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Percy John Clark

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

James Buist Simpson

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Infantry

Mahmoud Dahoud Mohamad

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Pioneer Corps

Georghios G Ioannou

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Cyprus Regiment

John Thomson Boyd

1912 – 1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Richard John Goodison

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Arthur Claude Finch

1916 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Infantry

Michael M Petrou

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Cyprus Regiment

William Noel Hartley

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

1214193 Flight Sergeant W.N. Hartley Navigator/Bomber Royal Air Force 9th. April 1944 Age 24 In proud and loving memory of our dear son, who died a hero for us all R.I.P.

Murray Thomas Savage

1917 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Singh Dhir

1945

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

4th Gwalior Maharaja's Bahadur Battalion

Robert John Patterson

1905 – 1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

NX. 10075 SERGEANT R. J. PATTERSON 2/32 AUST. INF. BN. 5TH SEPTEMBER 1942 AGE 37 REST IN PEACE

Frederick Charles Henry Pope

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

New Zealand Infantry

Rowland John Owen

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Welch Regiment

Issac I Ferguson

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Artillery

Joseph Solomon

1942

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

PAL/23228 Sapper J. Solomon Royal Engineers 19th. July 1942

James Alfred Douglass

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Eric E Critchley

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Army Service Corps

A Soldier

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

A SOLDIER OF THE 1939 - 1945 WAR 1941 KNOWN UNTO GOD

Charles Walter Birkett

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

York and Lancaster Regiment

Mohamad El Ali

1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Royal Engineers

Henry Francis Chapman

1946

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

T/14947154 DRIVER H. F. CHAPMAN ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS 17TH APRIL 1946 AGE 19 THO' OUR DEAR HENRY SLEEPS IN A FAR-OFF GRAVE HE IS ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING MUM AND DAD

Leicestershire Regiment

Roy Matthew Jerrom

1917 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

Laurance William Brierley

1944

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

1581O57 SERGEANT L. W. BRIERLEY PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 10TH SEPTEMBER 1944 AGE 24 AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

William Leo Daniell

1917 – 1941

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens Memorial

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Deceased (4.498)

Edward Yates Bolton

Leslie Thomas Skinner

Walter Alexander Brown

Frederick Kenneth Tearrell

George Francis Williams

William Thomas Barnhouse

Jack J Cope

Ernest E Wilson

Cyril Norman Lewis

William James Cull

Salim Syoufi Salah

H P Simpson

Robin Gordon McDONALD

Augustus George Evans

Frank Charles Norton Kingston

Islwyn I Thomas

Singh Bakhtawar

John Ross Monro Hector

John J Rice

I. I. S. Osman

Ronald George Coman

Arthur Taylor

A Soldier

Thomas T Thomas

Benjamin Charles Morrow Dickinson

Daniel Maybin Blair

John J Hardy

Joseph J Waters

Leonard Percival John Overington

Eric Collinson Nuttall

Hussein Halil Hassan

Robert Colin Spence

Percy John Clark

James Buist Simpson

Mahmoud Dahoud Mohamad

Georghios G Ioannou

John Thomson Boyd

Richard John Goodison

Arthur Claude Finch

Michael M Petrou

William Noel Hartley

Murray Thomas Savage

Singh Dhir

Robert John Patterson

Frederick Charles Henry Pope

Rowland John Owen

Issac I Ferguson

Joseph Solomon

James Alfred Douglass

Eric E Critchley

A Soldier

Charles Walter Birkett

Mohamad El Ali

Henry Francis Chapman

Stewart David McVictor Gibson

Richard David Nicholson

Charles Edmund Bills

Roy Matthew Jerrom

Laurance William Brierley

William Leo Daniell

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