THE
CEMETERIES AND MEMORIALS
AZMAK CEMETERY (1074 burials)
contains casualties of the northern part of the Suvla
operations. The name derives from Azmak Dere, a watered
ravine
running into Salt Lake. The cemetery is 500m from a
metalled road along a track that is normally drivable.
HILL 10 CEMETERY (699 burials) is named after a low
isolated mound on the northern side of the Salt Lake
which was taken by the 11th Manchester and the 9th
Lancashire Fusiliers on 7 August 1915. Graves from six
small cemeteries were brought together to make this
cemetery after the armistice.
GREEN HILL CEMETERY (2971 burials) is named after a hill
which was captured by the 6th Lincolns and 6th Borders on
the evening of 7 August. Unsuccesfull efforts were made
to advance beyond Green Hill, culminating on 21 August in
the Battle of Scimitar Hill, but the front line remained
there until the evacuation.
LALA BABA CEMETERY (788 burials) and NEW ZEALAND
MEMORIAL(183 names) is named after a low hillock that was
attacked on 21 August by a composite Anzac Force of
Australians, New Zealanders, British and Gurkhas. After 8
days' intense fighting, the greates part of the crest,
though not the actual summit, had been captured. The
cemetery lies among the old trenches and burials were
made after the fighting on the hill. The New Zealand
Memorial is in the cemetery and bears the names of the
New Zealand soldiers who fell on Hill 60 and whose graves
are unknown. The cemetery is reached along a 800m track
which requires a 4-wheel drive vehicle during wet
wheather.
7TH FIELD AMBULANCE CEMETERY (640 burials) is named after
the 7th Australian Field Ambulance. It was greatly
enlarged after the armistice.
EMBARKATION PIER CEMETERY ( 944 burials) takes its name
from a pier built early in August at the north end of the
Ocean Beach, over which the wounded from the attack on
the Sari Bair Ridge were to be evacuated. Turkish
artillery fire prevented it from being used for this
purpose.
NO.2 OUTPOST CEMETERY (152 burials) and NEW ZEALAND NO.2
OUTPOST CEMETERY (183 burials) are two small cemeteries
within 100m of each other and named after outpost
established by the Canterbury Battalion,New Zealand
Infantry, soon after the landings. Exposed to heavy fire
from the Turkish positions in the hills to the east, the
post could only be approached by night until mid-May when
a deep communication trench was completed. Both
cemeteries were established during the occupation.
CANTERBURY CEMETERY (27 burials) was so named from the
fact that the majority of the burials in it are of men of
the Canterbury Mounted Rifles.
ARI BURNU CEMETERY (253 burials) is named after the
promontory at the north end of Anzac Cove and was used
throughout the occupation.
BEACH CEMETERY (391 burials) is a curved plot 80m in
length just above the point Hell spit facing the sea and
was used throughout the occupation.
SHRAPNEL VALLEY CEMETERY (683 burials) derived its name
from the heavy shelling in the are in the first days of
the landing. The valley was a main line of advance and,
later, of communication with the front line. Burials were
made in it during the occupation and some isolated graves
were brought in after the armistice.
PLUGGE'S PLATEAU CEMETERY (21 burials) is the smallest
cemetery on the Peninsula and is only accessible along a
steep footpath from behind Shrapnel Valley Cemetery. The
plateau was named after Colonel Arthur Plugge, commanding
the Auckland Battalion, who placed his headquarters
there.
SHELL GREEN CEMETERY (499 burials) is 300m up a hilly
track from the coast road, which may not bedriveable in
wet weather. Shell Green was a field sloping seawards at
the southern end of the Anzac area and took its name from
the frequency with which it was shelled.
LONE PINE CEMETERY (1167 burials) and LONE PINE MEMORIAL
(4930 Names) are named after the solitiary pine tree that
grew here at the southern part of the Plateau 400. The
position was taken in the initial invasion but retaken by
the Turks on the evening of the next day. It was again
captured on 6th August and held until the evacuation. The
memorial names 4221 Australian and 709 New Zealand
soldiers who have no known grave.
JOHNSTON'S JOLLY CEMETERY (181 burials) stands on the
northern part of Plateau 400 and was named after Colonel
George Johnston, commanding the 2nd Australian Division
Artillery, who had field guns placed to
"jolly-up" the enemy.
4TH BATTALION PARADE GROUND CEMETERY (116 burials) is on
the track from the Wire Gully Sector of the front line
back to Anzac Cove; it is 300m from the road and not
accesible by car. It is named after the 4th Battalion of
the Australian Imperial Force, which buried 34 of its
casualties there during May and June.
COURTNEY'S AND STEEL'S POST CEMETERY (225 burials) and
QUINN'S POST CEMETERY (473 burials) are named after three
Australian infantry officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard
Courtney, Major Thomas Steel and Captain Hugh Quinn. The
posts in question were scrub-covered recesses in the
gully wall occupied by the Anzacs on the first day of the
invasion and held througout the campaign.
WALKER'S RIDGE CEMETERY (92 burials) is named after
Brigadier Harold Bridgwood Walker; the Brigade captured
the ridge on the first day of the Anzac landing and it
was held against a strong Turkish attack on 30 June. The
cemetery is 250m along a level track from the road.
THE NECK CEMETERY (326 burials) and BABY 700 CEMETERY
(493 burials) were both made after the armistice and
nearly all the dead were unidentified, although the
majority of them would be Anzacs-many of them of the
Third Australian Light Horse Brigade killed on 7 August.
The Nek is the track along the top of the spur running up
to Baby 700- a hill so named in contrast to the larger
Battleship Hill known as Big 700.
CHUNUK BAIR CEMETERY (632 burials) and CHUNUK BAIR NEW
ZEALAND MEMORIAL (850 names) take their name from the
southern summit(now known as Conkbayiri) of the Sari
Bair, the ridge which dominates the centre of the
Peninsula. It was a main objective in the battle of Sari
Bair from 6 to 10 August in a combined New
Zealand,British and Gurkha assault. The crest was reached
on the 8th and was held against incessant Turkish attacks
on the following day, before being lost to a further
counter-attack on the 10th. This loss marked the end of
the effort to capture the cenrtral hills on the Peninsula
and was a turning point in the campaign. Burials made by
the Turks after the battle of Sari Bair form the basis of
the cemetery, with others being made after the armistice.
Across the road from the cemetery and memorial to the
missing stands in New Zealand National Memorial in the
form of a tall tapering stone pylon.
THE FARM CEMETERY (652 burials) takes its name from a
shepperd's stone hut which stood on the western slope of
Chunuk Bair. It is reached along a steep footpath which
runs from the fire-break that starts south of Chunuk Bair
Cemetery.
REDOUBT CEMETERY (2027 burials) is 100m west of the road
along a track flanked by pine trees.Its name derives from
the Redoubt Line - the front line of British and French
trenches established in May. It was started immediately
after the second battle of Krithia in the rear of the
support line.
SKEW BRIDGE CEMETERY (607 burials) is named after an
angled or "skew" bridge that crossed Kanli Dere
near where the cemetery now stands. Burials began after
the second battle Krithia in May, but the majority were
brought in from other small battlefields.
TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY (3359 burials) and MEMORIAL
(179 names) recall a stand of pines named by men of the
86th and 87th Brigades. The copse was used as a forward
observation post for the artillery but was later
destroyed by shellfire. The memorial within the cemetery
commemorates New Zealand soldiers who died in the second
battle of Krithia and during the fighting on the Helles
Front in July and whose graves are unknown.
PINK FARM CEMETERY (602 burials) takes its name from the
reddish soil on which it stands.The area was the site of
a forward supply base throughout the campaign all
included a small cemetery which was greatly enlarged
after the armistice with burials from the surrounding
area.
LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY (1252 burials) stands on a
cliff overlooking the beach on which the 1st Lancashire
Fusiliers landed on 25th April. It was begun immediately
after the landings and some further burials were moved
into it after the armistice.
V BEACH CEMETERY (697 burials) is named afer one of the
five beaches around the toe of the Peninsula that were
used in the Helles landings. The cemetery is right on the
beach and was begun on the day after the invasion. Nearby
is the solitiary grave of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles
Doughty-Wylie VC CB CMG.
THE HELLES MEMORIAL (20771 Names) is both the memorial to
the Gallipoli campaign and to men who fell in that
campaign and whose graves are unknown or who were lost or
buried at sea in Gallipoli waters(other than Austrialian
and New Zealanders who are named on other memorials).
Inscribed
on it are the names of the all ships that took part in
the campaign and the titles of the army formations and
the units which served on the Peninsula. It stands on the
tip of the Peninsula and is in the form of an obelisk
over 30m high that can be seen by ships passing through
the Dardanelles.
THE FRENCH WAR CEMETERY AND THE CANAKKALE MARTYRS
MEMORIAL overlook Morto Bay on the south of the
Peninsula. The French War Cemetery commemorates the
14,300 French troops who died in the Gallipoli campaign,
some of whom are buried in individual graves whilst the
remains of others are contained in ossuaries within the
cemetery. The Canakkale Martyrs Memorial is over 40m high
and commemorates Turkish losses in the Battle of
Canakkale, as the campaign is known here.
CHANAK CONSULAR CEMETERY contains graves dating fron the
1860's when a British consulate was established in the
town of Canakkale. Most of the 39 Commonwealth War Graves
in the cemetery date from the period after the armistice
with Turkey in 1918 when three medical units of the
British Army moved into Canakkale as part of occupying
force. The cemetery is 2km east of the ferry terminal,
near to the town stadium. The cemetery is kept locked and
visitors should ask at the Commission's office in
Canakkale for the key.
The commonwealth War Graves Commission is responsible for
marking and maintaining the graves of those members of
the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars
for building and maintaining memorials to the dead whose
graves are unknown and for providing records and
registers of these burials and commemorations, totalling
1.7 million and found in most countries throughout the
world. The commonwelath cemeteries and memorials on the
Gallipoli Peninsula are maintained by Commission staff.
Enquiries on location of individual burials or
commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula may be directed
to the either of the adresses below.
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