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Greece – Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery

Gunner Frank Cox, who died on 13th July 1916, is buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece (plot 245).  The cemetery is located approximately 2 km north of Thessaloniki city centre and is inside a very large, mainly First World War Allied cemetery containing Serbian, French and Italian casualties.

Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery (formerly known as the Anglo-French Military Cemetery) was begun in November 1915 and Commonwealth, French, Serbian, Italian and Russian sections were formed.

There are now 1,648 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.  The Commonwealth plot also contains 45 Bulgarian and one Serbian war grave.