Suda Bay War Cemetery

📍 Chania, Σούδα, Grecia

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Suda Bay War Cemetery is located approximately 5 km east from the centre of Chania (Xania). From Chania follow the Suda Boulevard road for approximately 4 km until you arrive at the junction of Ellis and then turn left following the signs for the Airport and Vlite. Proceed for around 200 metres along this road until you arrive at the junction of Mavridaki Street. Turn left onto Mavridaki Street and follow this road for 400 metres until you come to the CWGC sign on the right hand side. Proceed for a further 100 metres and turn right at the next CWGC sign. The cemetery is in an olive grove. In May 1941, the Commonwealth force in Crete was organised in five widely separated defence areas along the north coast - around the three airfields at Iraklion, Rethymnon and Maleme, and at Suda Bay and the port of Chania. The Germans launched their attack on 20 May with airborne troops. The airfield at Maleme was quickly captured and used for landing German reinforcements. On 23 May, the remainder of the Maleme position had to be given up and its defenders fell back to Chania. On 26 May, the Allied line west of Chania was broken. Suda Bay became indefensible and the troops from these two positions, with the remainder of the Maleme garrison, withdrew across the island to Sfakion, where many of them were evacuated by sea on the nights of the 28 - 31 May. The airborne attacks on the Iraklion and Rethymnon positions on 20 May were repulsed. Iraklion was successfully defended until the night of 29/29 May when the garrison was evacuated by sea. Orders for the Rethymnon garrison to fight its way southward for evacuation did not arrive, and it was overwhelmed on 31 May. Of the total Commonwealth land force of 32,000 men, 18,000 were evacuated, 12,000 were taken prisoner and 2,000 were killed. The site of Suda Bay War Cemetery was chosen after the war and graves were moved there by 21st and 22nd Australian War Graves Units from the four burial grounds that had been established by the German occupying forces at Chania, Iraklion, Rethymnon and Galata, and from isolated sites and civilian cemeteries. There are now 1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 776 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate a number of casualties believed to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains 19 First World War burials brought in from Suda Bay Consular Cemetery, 1 being unidentified. There are also 7 burials of other nationalities and 37 non-war burials.

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Deceased (780)

Gerard Neil Best

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6508 New Zealand Infantry

Frederick Joseph Cummins

1912 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX 11193 Australian Infantry

George Bell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1603 New Zealand Artillery

Raymond Henry Johnson

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3179 New Zealand Infantry

Robert Douglas Smith

1915 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Engineers

Dennis Clark

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

T/159226 Royal Army Service Corps

Henry Edward Dunn

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

S/178452 PRIVATE H. E. DUNN ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 26 † HIS COUNTRY CALLED. HE ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE. SLEEP ON, VALIANT HEART

Stanley Ashman

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

3954205 Welch Regiment

Arthur Campbell Jolly

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6896841 L.Cpl A.C. Jolly The Rangers (9th Bn. K.R.R.C.) 27th. May 1941 Age 24

Ronald Ernest Williams

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

30087 New Zealand Infantry

David Joseph Wilson

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX5538 Australian Infantry

Frederick Morris Spurdle

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

31322 N. Z. Machine Gun Battalion

Norman Ward Archer

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

SOME DAY GOD WILL UNROLL THE BANNER AND EXPLAIN THE REASON WHY

Robert Charles Evans

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX2813 Australian Infantry

Thomas Harvey Girven

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

653103 SERGEANT WIRELESS OPERATOR / AIR GUNNER ROYAL AIR FORCE

Ronald Ernest Drewery

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

14891 New Zealand Infantry

Albert Duncan

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

11375 PRIVATE A. DUNCAN N.Z. INFANTRY 26TH MAY 1941 AGE 35

George Frederick Parnell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6606 DRIVER N. Z. Army Service Corps

Gordon Iles Horadam

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX44955 Australian Infantry

Vincent Patrick Froelich

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10757 New Zealand Infantry

J.K.H. Guest

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

LIEUTENANT J. K. H. GUEST S. A. A. F. 7TH MAY 1944 AGE 21 S.A.A.F. = South African Air Force

John Patrick Walsh

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

22421 GUNNER J. P. WALSH N. Z. ARTILLERY 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 36 †

Trevor Ledestin De Clifford

1913 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7456 DRIVER New Zealand Army Service Corps AGE 27

Allan Edwin Carson

1920 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

404537 Royal Australian Air Force

Robert James Farrer

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

EX563(T) Royal Marines

Eric E. Leitch

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

NX13132 Australian Infantry

La Tour Mollet “Ted” D'Auvergne

1906 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7110 Private LA T. M. D'AUVERGNE N.Z. Machine Gun Bn. 2nd June 1941 Age 35

Walter Pollitt

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

814517 Royal Artillery †

Eric Percy Loader

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

885524 ROYAL ARTILLERY

James Andrew Hepburn

1905 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

10884 LANCE CORPORAL N. Z. INFANTRY

Frank Henry Hall

1945

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1456163 FLIGHT SERGEANT F. H. HALL AIR GUNNER ROYAL AIR FORCE 22ND NOVEMBER 1945 AGE 22 † LOVED, REMEMBERED LONGED FOR ALWAYS, BRINGING MANY A SILENT TEAR. MUM AND DAD

Douglas Robert “Doug” Shaw

1914 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

William Arthur Knox

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

2655907 WO II (CSM) Intelligence Corps

James J. Jelley

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

9001 WARRANT OFFICER II New Zealand Army Service Corps

Earle Vaughan Pickering

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4353 DRIVER E. V. PICKERING N. Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS 21ST MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

Charles Russell Barker

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Australian Infantry

Edward Henry Appleby

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

7335677 PRIVATE E. H. APPLEBY ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS 25TH MAY 1941 AGE 39 † LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY HIS WIFE EDITH

Robert Edward Porter

1918 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

6743 N. Z. INFANTRY

Herbert John Tabern

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

978105 ROYAL AIR FORCE

Everard Marsden Porter

1893 – 1918

Suda Bay War Cemetery

LIEUTENANT E. M. PORTER ROYAL AIR FORCE 6TH AUGUST 1918 †

Frederick Joseph Pinnell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

S/75609 Royal Army Service Corps

R. O. D. Brooksbank

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

LIEUTENANT R. O. D. BROOKSBANK S. A. A. F. 7TH MAY 1944 AGE 21 † TILL WE MEET AT THE END OF THE ROAD S. A. A. F. = South African Air Force

William Henry Mapstone

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

4915368 South Staffordshire Regiment

Vivian Thomas Heron

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

5970 DRIVER New Zealand Army Service Corps

Robert Scott

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT 1454063 GUNNER R. SCOTT ROYAL ARTILLERY 2ND JUNE 1941 AGE 33 †

Douglas James Henshaw

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

11084 New Zealand Army Service Corps

Donald Bruce Giles

1917 – 1943

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal Australian Air Force

Charles William Walker

1904 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

T/16691 SERJEANT C. W. WALKER ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS 29TH MAY 1941 AGE 39 †

Richard Harry Baff

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

32222 New Zealand Engineers

Robert Burns Brown-Pryde

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

14229 New Zealand Infantry

John William Morris

1944

Suda Bay War Cemetery

PILOT OFFICER J. W. MORRIS PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 16TH FEBRUARY 1944 AGE 30 † TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE

Carroll Ronald Durrant

1919 – 1942

Suda Bay War Cemetery

Royal New Zealand Air Force. 160 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. Age 23.

Daniel Roy Tierney

1919 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX11698 Australian Infantry

Gordon William Connell

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Wilfred Greenfield Young

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT 2ND LIEUTENANT WILFRED GREENFIELD YOUNG THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGT. 20TH MAY 1941 AGE 23 †

Claude Charles Congdon

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Infantry

Thomas James Aiken

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

New Zealand Engineers

John Davitt

1916 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

852518 GUNNER J. DAVITT 106TH (LANCS. HUSSARS YEO.) LIGHT A. A. REGT. R. A. 26TH APRIL 1941 AGE 24 †

Graham Hay Sim

1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

8369 New Zealand Infantry

Ernest Sydney Seaman

1911 – 1941

Suda Bay War Cemetery

VX5597 Australian Infantry

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