Cemetery

Suda Bay War Cemetery

📍 Chania, Crete🖊 Louis de Soissons

Suda Bay War Cemetery on Crete records the Commonwealth’s military dead from two World Wars in one tightly focused place. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission administers the cemetery at Souda Bay, where Louis de Soissons designed the site. Here you’ll find 19 burials from World War I, alongside 731 World War II burials where the body was identified—plus another 776 graves for remains that could not be identified, connected to the Battle of Crete. Among those remembered is Captain Frank Richard Pendlebury, a New Zealand officer. On 21 May 1941, as German troops took over Heraklion, he left a vehicle to fire on German troops during an attempted counterattack route toward Krousonas, near the village of Kapetanios Satanas, about 15 kilometres to the southwest. …
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