Doiran Memorial

Doiran Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Doiran Memorial
For the British Salonika Army and their missing dead
Unveiled	25 September 1926
Location	41°10′07″N 22°45′44″E / 41.1685°N 22.7623°E / 41.1685; 22.7623Coordinates: 41°10′07″N 22°45′44″E / 41.1685°N 22.7623°E / 41.1685; 22.7623 near Doirani, Greece
Designed by	Robert Lorimer (architect) Walter Gilbert (sculptor)
Total commemorated	2,171
In glorious memory of 418 officers and 10,282 other ranks of the British Salonika Force who died in Macedonia and Serbia 1915–1918 and to commemorate 1,979 of all ranks who have no known grave but whose names are on the panels. They did their duty.
Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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.

Located near the village of Doirani in Greece on the south-eastern shores of Lake Doiran, the memorial was placed near the border that then existed between Greece and Serbia, and which is now the border between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia. The memorial is near a CWGC cemetery called Doiran Military Cemetery and stands on a mound that was called Colonial Hill (the cemetery was originally called Colonial Hill Cemetery No.2). The location of the memorial is where fierce fighting took place in 1917 and 1918, see Battle of Doiran (1917) and Battle of Doiran (1918).

The memorial design by Commission architect Robert Lorimer features four square piers, each bearing name panels, placed to form a square around a central pylon that is some 40 feet (12 m) high, bearing the dedicatory inscriptions and two carved lions and stone wreaths. The sculptures are by Walter Gilbert. The cost of the memorial was largely paid for by subscriptions raised from the officers and men who served in the campaign.

The memorial, with the main inscriptions draped with British and Greek flags, was unveiled on 25 September 1926 by General Sir George Macdonogh, who represented the British Army. Guards of honour were provided by the Royal Navy (from the ship HMS Resolution) and the Greek Army. Representing the Commission was Sir Frederic Kenyon.