Doiran Memorial
The Doiran Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial that is both a battlefield memorial and a memorial to the missing. It honours the dead of the British Salonika Force as well as commemorating by name the 2171 missing dead of that force who fell in fighting on the Macedonian front during the First World War in the period 1915–1918.- Type: Memorial
- Description: Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Doirani, Greece
- Also known as: “Μνημείο Πεσόντων Βρετανών”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Doiran Military Cemetery and Doirani railway station.
Doiran Military Cemetery
Cemetery
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Doiran Military Cemetery is situated 430 metres east of Doiran Memorial.
Doirani railway station
Railway station
Doirani railway station is a railway station that serves the nearby town of Doirani, in Kilkis in Central Macedonia, Greece. The station is located 1.3 kilometres southeast of the settlement but still within the settlement limits. Doirani railway station is situated 1 km northeast of Doiran Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Doirani and Akritas.
Doirani
Village
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Doirani is a town and former municipality in the Kilkis regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kilkis, of which it is a municipal unit.
Akritas
Village
Akritas is a village situated in the municipal unit of Doirani of the municipality of Kilkis, in the Kilkis regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece. Akritas is situated 3 km southwest of Doiran Memorial.
Drosaton
Village
Drosato is a village and a community in the Kilkis regional unit, northern Greece. Drosato was the seat of the former municipality of Doirani. The community Drosato consists of the villages Drosato, Doirani and Koryfi. Drosaton is situated 3½ km east of Doiran Memorial.
Doiran Memorial
- Categories: Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained memorial and historic site
- Location: Kilkis, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.16827° or 41° 10′ 6″ northLongitude
22.76236° or 22° 45′ 45″ eastInception
September 25th, 1926Open location code
8GH45Q96+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 1773735164OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q26225463
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Hausa—“Doiran Memorial” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Дойрански мемориал”
- Hausa: “Abin tunawa da Doiran”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Βρετανικό Μνημείο Δοϊράνης and Ελληνικό Στρατιωτικό Νεκροταφείο Δοϊράνης.
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