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Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria - Greece |
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1 officer of the Gloucestershire Regiment is buried in this cemetery |
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MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY. The British cemetery at Mikra was opened in April 1917, remaining in use until 1920. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from a number of burial grounds in the area. MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY now contains 1,810 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, as well as 147 war graves of other nationalities. Within the cemetery will be found the MIKRA MEMORIAL, commemorating almost 500 nurses, officers and men of the Commonwealth forces who died when troop transports and hospital ships were lost in the Mediterranean, and who have no grave but the sea. They are commemorated here because others who went down in the same vessels were washed ashore and identified, and are now buried at Thessalonika. |
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Capt H J Hammond - 2nd Battalion. Died of wounds on 23rd March 1918. Plot 1752 |
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