MONASTIR ROAD INDIAN CEMETERY
MONASTIR ROAD INDIAN CEMETERY 
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- Country:
- Greece
- Identified Casualties:
- 353
Location Information
The cemetery is 3 kilometres from the centre of Thessaloniki on the main road to Edessa. It is situated near a level crossing and is well sign-posted. The area name is Dentropotamos.
Visiting Information
Visitors should contact the Local Supervisor for additional help and to collect keys because the Cemetery is now kept locked.
Historical Information
The cemetery was made between 1916 and 1920, and is made up of two plots - the southern plot, containing burials, and the northern plot, in which the remains of over 200 Indian servicemen were cremated in accordance with their faith. The men served mainly with the Royal Artillery, the Transport Corps of Bharatpur and Indore, the Mule Corps and, after 1918, certain Indian regiments.
There are now 358 Indian servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. The northern plot contains a memorial with panels bearing the names of those who were cremated.
The cemetery also contains the Monastir Road Indian Memorial, bearing the names of over 160 Indian servicemen who died in Macedonia during the First World War, whose graves could not be marked or moved.