Suda Bay War Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased
Location🌍
Chania Municipality, Greece
Total burials1,564
Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The Suda Bay War Cemetery is a military cemetery administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Souda Bay, Crete, Greece. It contains 19 burials from World War I and 731 World War II burials where the body was identified along with another 776 burials of bodies unable to be identified (Battle of Crete). It was designed by architect Louis de Soissons.

Among those buried there are John Pendlebury (1904–1941) and Dudley Perkins (1915–1944).

35°30′00″N 24°03′40″E / 35.5001°N 24.0612°E / 35.5001; 24.0612


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