Phaleron War Cemetery & Athens Memorial - photo offers

I'll be in Athens late April/start of May, if anyone wants any photos or for me to stop by a grave and pay respect please ask and I'll see what I can manage

Alistair

 

Alistair,

Cheekily.. would you mind taking a photo of Fusilier Newman's final resting place please?

thank you

Casualty

Fusilier NEWMAN, DOUGLAS ALFRED
Cemetery/memorial reference: 16. C. 18.
Service Number 7044698
Died 02/05/1945
Aged 29
1st Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
Son of Alfred and Maud Newman, of Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Lily Newman, of Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.

 

Fus Douglas Alfred Newman
BIRTH 1916 Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent Unitary Authority, Staffordshire, England
DEATH 2 May 1945 (aged 28–29) Greece
BURIAL Phaleron War Cemetery
Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
PLOT 16. C. 18.
Photo credit DIMITRIOS CORCODILOS

Photo credit..Iain MacFarlaine

Kyle

 

Thanks...bit of a strange date for a Faugh to die in Greece... Although badged 1st Bn, perhaps Fusilier Newman was attached to another unit.

 

Accidentally killed .Previously wounded 25/04/1943 in North Africa.


Kyle

 

ok thanks - still surprising that he was buried in Greece, given that the 1st Bn RIrF were still near the Po that day - as I say, must have been on attachment... he must have been wounded on Easter Sunday '43 in the final battle for pt 622 north of Medjez.

 

Hi

The concentration report says his body was moved from Tzini which is a suburb of Patras.

Hope this helps

Gus

 

Thank you... still a 1,000 miles or so from where his battalion were resting that day.....

 

Hi

Just read this. BBC - WW2 People's War - Greece about a ex Guards Sgt who was struggling in Italy to become fit to fight ending up in Patras in May 1945 with the
Anglo-Greek Information Service.

Maybe Fus Newman went over for similar reasons.

Gus

 

Something of that nature might have occurred..hopefully his wife, Lily, knew more.

 

Hi Alistair

At Phaleron could you visit Lance Corporal William Reid of the 2nd Black Watch please? He's named on the memorial on Face 6 having been buried at sea following the bombing of HMS Orion during the evacuation of Crete. He was briefly on Everton's books and is mentioned in the board minutes as being posted missing 'in the Cretan operations'. Beyond that I know very little of him, but I'm hoping that the expertise on the forum might be able to help me with that in the future.

If you could get a photo of his name and the panel I would be very grateful; while searching on Phaleron on the forum I've found several good photographs of the location so I have a sense of the setting.

Thanks again,

Pete.

P.S. As this is my first post I hope I haven't transgressed too many unwritten laws.....

 

Photo credit DIMITRIOS CORCODILOS



Kyle

 

That is brilliant Kyle, much appreciated.

Pete.

 

Bringing this one back up, I'll be in Athens again start of May so plenty time to get any requests in