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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