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Cemetery:  SKOPJE BRITISH CEMETERY
Country:     Macedonia,
Locality:     SKOPJE
Location Information:     The war cemetery is north-east of the town, 1 kilometre north of the railway station in Bulevar Jugoslavija. It lies adjacent to the church of the Archangel Michael and an accommodation building for the university.
Historical Information:     Skopje was captured by the Bugarians in October 1915 and re-entered by French cavalry at the end of September 1918. Skoplje British Cemetery was created after the Armistice when burials were gathered together from Kumanovo British Cemetery, Prilep French Military Cemetery, Veles British and French Military Cemteries and other burial grounds. The great majority of those who died were men of the RASC (MT), who died of influenza after the Armistice with Bulgaria. There are now 124 Commonwealth servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Six of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate six servicemen buried in Uskub German Cemetery whose graves could not be found.
No. of Identified Casualties:     118

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Name:      CASSAR, CARMELO
Initials:     C
Nationality:     United Kingdom
Rank:     Private
Regiment/Service:     Army Service Corps
Unit Text:     706th M.T. Coy.
Age:     19
Date of Death:     04/11/1918
Service No:     M/374154
Additional information:     Son of Spiridione and Marianna Cassar, of 163, Sda Reale, Hanirun, Malta.
Casualty Type:     Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:     D. 8.
Cemetery:     SKOPJE BRITISH CEMETERY

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• Св. Архангел Михаил Скопје – Храм Славе … Sv. Arhangel Mihail Skopje – Hram Slave … фото и видео сторија …
• SKOPJE BRITISH CEMETERY
• MILITARY CEMETERIES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
  IN MACEDONIA REGION:
• 1.1. Typically, the First World War started in the Balkan area with the Austro-
  Hungarian crown prince’s assassination by Serbs nationalists in Sarajevo and the
  consequent ultimatum of Austro-Hungary to Serbia. The internationalization of
  the war took place in late 1915, when the two opposing parties of the Germans,
  Austrians and Bulgarians (Central Powers) on the one side and the French,
  British, Serbs, Russians, Italians and Greeks on the other (Entente Cordiale)
  came to a conflict in the center of the Balkans and especially in Macedonia,
  creating thus the third Front.
  1.2. The Macedonian Front was created in October 1915. It was the second attempt
  of the Entente troops – the first one took place in February 1915 with an
  attack against Dardanelles which led to the slay of the British-French troops – to
  break the Front of the Central Powers troops and help Russia, which was receiving
  successive blows by the Germans and the Austrians. This Front by no means
  shared any of the significance of either the Western or the Eastern Front; while
  the course of the operations in the former front left the course of the First World
  War completely unaffected. However, it was a front where about 1.000.000
  soldiers were caught in and where several lethal combats took place. The most
  significant combats of this front aimed at the conquest of the town of Bitola in
  western Macedonia, in Kaymakcalan Mountain, in the Lake Doiran district in the
  east, and in Skra di Legen in central Macedonia.
  1.5. Great Britain from the very first start systematically founded permanent
  military cemeteries in the Macedonia region. Anyway as early as the 21st May
  1917, by means of a Royal Decree, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  was created for this reason. Great Britain’s policy concerning the founding of
  cemeteries was different than that of the other countries. Instead of establishing
  big cemeteries, where all the dead soldieres would be gathered, it preferred to
  create many smaller ones close to the battlefields and the big military
  hospitals.[4] This way, after the truce, the Commission proceeded to the removal
  of relics from those temporary cemeteries in order for them to be permanently
  buried in new ones. However, the reason why the British had chosen to establish
  all their cemeteries within the Greek region of Macedonia remains unknown;
  even in the case of the Lake Doiran district, when the crucial battles took place in
  a distance of about 15-20 km within the territory of the then Serbia and the Greek
  military cemetery as well as the Bulgarian – nowadays ruined – ones, are located
  in FYROM close to the villages of Valadovo and Fourka, 20-25 km away from
  the borders.