The memorial to Australian, Greek and British Servicemen consists of a flight of paved steps leading to a terrace upon which there are two 40mm Bofors guns, a tall obelisk and a memorial wall with bronze plaques.

The defence of Crete by the 6th Australian Division in May 1941 is commemorated by a memorial at Stavromenos, Rethymno.

Despite the defeat, many in Greece still remember that Britain, its Empire and Dominions, did not desert them in one of the darkest periods of modern Greek history. In 1975 at Stavremenos, near Rethymno, on Crete, where Australian and local Greek forces held back the German paratroopers in May 1941, the local community erected a memorial to commemorate that event. A plaque on the memorial records, with attendant colour patches, every major Australian unit that fought the Germans at Stavromenos, at Perivolia and in the Rethymno area in general.

The local municipal authority created the memorial. The two 40mm Bofors guns were provided by the Commonwealth of Australia.

Stavromenos, Greece.

About 85km east of Suda Bay, on the old coast road in Stavromenos.