List of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula
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This is a list of all cemeteries and memorials erected following the Battle of Gallipoli
in 1915 during World War I. There is one French cemetery, 31 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
cemeteries containing mainly dead from Britain
, Australia, New Zealand
, India
and Newfoundland
, and over 50 memorials, grave sites and cemeteries dedicated to the Turkish
casualties.
There is only one solitary marked Allied grave outside of a cemetery on the peninsula resulting from the campaign, that of Lieutenant Colonel
Charles Doughty-Wylie. He was buried close to where he was killed during the capture of Seddülbahir on the morning of April 26, 1915.
There are several isolated Turkish graves, those of Soldier Halil Ibrahim, Lt-Colonel Hasan and 2nd Lieutenant Mustafa.
There are also isolated Turkish graves belonging to Lt-Colonel Hussein Manastir, Captain Mehmet and First Lt Nazif Çakmak.
There is also a single isolated marked Turkish grave, belonging to a German nurse, Erica Ragip, the wife of a medical officer, who was killed by a howitzer shell.
Battle of Gallipoli
The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli, took place at the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, during the First World War...
in 1915 during World War I. There is one French cemetery, 31 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves, and places of commemoration, of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars...
cemeteries containing mainly dead from Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
, Australia, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and Newfoundland
Dominion of Newfoundland
The Dominion of Newfoundland was a British Dominion from 1907 to 1949 . The Dominion of Newfoundland was situated in northeastern North America along the Atlantic coast and comprised the island of Newfoundland and Labrador on the continental mainland...
, and over 50 memorials, grave sites and cemeteries dedicated to the Turkish
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
casualties.
Cemeteries
- Allied
- French War Cemetery
- Lancashire Landing Cemetery
- Pink Farm Cemetery
- Redoubt Cemetery
- Skew Bridge Cemetery
- Twelve Tree Copse CemeteryTwelve Tree Copse Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryTwelve Tree Copse Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli...
- V Beach CemeteryV Beach Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryV Beach Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey.The cemetery was brought into use shortly after the landing at Cape Helles at the end of April 1915 and its use ceased in May 1915. However 13 additional graves were moved into it in 1919...
- Turkish
- Alçıtepe Mass Grave
- Seddülbahir Ammunition Dump’s Cemetery (mass grave)
- Onion Valley Turkish War Cemetery
There is only one solitary marked Allied grave outside of a cemetery on the peninsula resulting from the campaign, that of Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant colonel
Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...
Charles Doughty-Wylie. He was buried close to where he was killed during the capture of Seddülbahir on the morning of April 26, 1915.
There are several isolated Turkish graves, those of Soldier Halil Ibrahim, Lt-Colonel Hasan and 2nd Lieutenant Mustafa.
Memorials
- Allied
- Cape Helles Memorial to the Missing - Britain and the British Commonwealth
- France - French War Cemetery Memorial, Morto Bay - France
- The New Zealand memorial in Twelve Tree Copse CemeteryTwelve Tree Copse Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryTwelve Tree Copse Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli...
- The memorial to Eric Duckworth in Redoubt Cemetery is unique in the peninsula as a private memorial within a CWCG cemetery
- Turkish
- Çanakkale Martyrs' MemorialÇanakkale Martyrs' MemorialThe Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial is a war memorial commemorating the service of about 253,000 Turkish soldiers who participated at the Battle of Gallipoli, which took place from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War...
- 18 March 1915 Memorial
- Alçıtepe Garrison War Memorial
- First Martyrs Memorial
- Gully Ravine Nuri Yamut Memorial
- Gully Ravine Field Dressing Post Memorial & Cemetery
- Gully Ravine Turkish Soldiers Memorial
- Last Arrow Memorial
- Marshal Fevzi Çakmak's War Memorial
- Sergeant Yahya Memorial
- Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial
Cemeteries
- Allied
- 4th Battalion Parade Ground Cemetery
- 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery
- Ari Burnu Cemetery
- Baby 700 CemeteryBaby 700 Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryBaby 700 Cemetery is a World War I Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. It contains the bodies of some of the soldiers killed during the battles at Gallipoli...
- Beach CemeteryBeach Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryBeach Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli...
- Canterbury CemeteryCanterbury Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryCanterbury Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located at ANZAC Cove in Turkey. It contains the remains of 27 soldiers from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. 26 were from the Canterbury Mounted Rifles and one from the Wellington Regiment. It is the only CWGC cemetery...
- Chunuk Bair Cemetery
- Courtney's and Steel's Post CemeteryCourtney's and Steel's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryCourtney's and Steel's Post Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near ANZAC Cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey...
- Embarkation Pier Cemetery
- Hill 60 CemeteryHill 60 Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryHill 60 Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery dating from World War I at the Northern end of the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey and the location of Hill 60 Memorial, one of four memorials on the peninsula which commemorate New Zealanders killed in the...
- Johnston's Jolly CemeteryJohnston's Jolly Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryJohnston's Jolly Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of some of the Allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli....
- Lone Pine CemeteryLone Pine Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryLone Pine Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery dating from World War I in the former ANZAC sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey and the location of the Lone Pine Memorial, one of five memorials on the peninsula which commemorate servicemen of the former British Empire...
- No. 2 Outpost Cemetery
- New Zealand No. 2 Outpost CemeteryNew Zealand No.2 Outpost Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryNew Zealand No.2 Outpost Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of some of the Allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli....
- Plugge's Plateau CemeteryPlugge's Plateau Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryPlugge's Plateau Cemetery is the smallest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. It contains some of soldiers killed during World War I during the battles at Gallipoli, was an eight month campaign fought by Commonwealth and French forces against Turkish...
- Quinn's Post CemeteryQuinn's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryQuinn's Post Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery from World War I in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey...
- Shell Green CemeteryShell Green Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryShell Green Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery from World War I in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey...
- Shrapnel Valley CemeteryShrapnel Valley Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryShrapnel Valley Cemetery is a cemetery from World War I and is the second largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, after Lone Pine Cemetery...
- The Farm CemeteryThe Farm Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryThe Farm Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. It contains some of soldiers killed during World War I during the battles at Gallipoli...
- The Nek CemeteryThe Nek Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryThe Nek Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey.The cemetery was constructed following the Armistice in 1919 on the site of the Battle of the Nek, at which time the ground was still covered with the remains of...
- Walker's Ridge CemeteryWalker's Ridge Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryWalker's Ridge Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Suvla Bay in Turkey. It contains the remains of Allied soldiers killed during the Battle of Gallipoli....
- Turkish
- Karayörük Valley Cemetery
- 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial57th Infantry Regiment MemorialThe 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial is a Turkish war memorial commemorating the men of the Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment who died during the Battle of Gallipoli....
- Kesikdere Cemetery
- Çataldere Cemetery
- Kocadere Hospital Memorial and Cemetery
There are also isolated Turkish graves belonging to Lt-Colonel Hussein Manastir, Captain Mehmet and First Lt Nazif Çakmak.
Memorials
- Allied
- Chunuk BairBattle of Chunuk BairThe Battle of Chunuk Bair was a World War I battle fought between the Ottoman defenders and troops of New Zealand and Britain. Allied units that made the summit of Chunuk Bair early a.m...
- New Zealand - Lone Pine Memorial - Australia and New Zealand
- Hill 60 - New Zealand
- Chunuk Bair
- Turkish
- Sergeant Mehmet’s Memorial
- Chunuk Bair Soldiers’ Memorial
- Chunuk Bair Atatürk Memorial
- Scrubby Knoll Turkish War Memorial
- Turkish War Memorial at The Nek
- Kabatepe (Gaba Tepe) Info Centre & Memorials
- 27th Regiments' Queensland Point Memorial
- Ari Burnu Memorial
- Damakçilik Bair Memorial
- Lone Pine Memorial (Turkish)
- Respect to Turkish Soldiers Memorial
- Respect to Enemy Soldier’s Memorial
- Chunuk Bair Unknown Soldiers' Memorial & Grave
Cemeteries
- Allied
- Azmak Cemetery
- Green Hill Cemetery
- Hill 10 CemeteryHill 10 Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryHill 10 Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in the former Suvla Bay sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. The battles at Gallipoli, some of whose participating soldiers are buried at this cemetery, was an eight month campaign fought by Commonwealth and French forces...
- Lala Baba CemeteryLala Baba Commonwealth War Graves Commission CemeteryLala Baba Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. It contains the remains of some of the soldiers killed during World War I during the battles at Gallipoli...
- Turkish
- 1st Lt Halid & 2 Lt Ali Riza’s Graves
- 1st Lt Hasan Tahsin & Regtl Mufti’s Graves
- Kireçtepe Gendarmes Cemetery
- Lt Colonel Halit & Ziya’s Graves
- Pine Monastery Cemetery
There is also a single isolated marked Turkish grave, belonging to a German nurse, Erica Ragip, the wife of a medical officer, who was killed by a howitzer shell.
Memorials
- Turkish
- Scimitar Hill Memorial
- Suvla Point Memorial
- Kireçtepe Memorial
European bank of the Dardanelles
- Turkish
- Kilitbahir Castle (Fort)
- Akbas Cemetery and Memorial
- National Park Main Information Centre Memorials
- A Captain’s Grave
- Çamburnu Martyr’s Memorial
- An Artillery Captain’s Grave
- Captain Tahir’s Memorial
- "Stop Traveller" Memorial
- Corporal SeyitSeyit ÇabukSeyit Ali Çabuk , usually called Corporal Seyit was a First World War gunner in the Ottoman Army. He is famous for having carried three 275 kg shells to an artillery piece during the Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915....
’s Statue - Mecidiye Cemetery and Memorial
- Havuzlar Cemetery and Memorial
Asian bank of the Dardanelles
These are included for completeness, although they are located just across the Dardanelles from the peninsula. They also commemorate aspects of the Gallipoli Campaign.- Turkish
- Hasan-Mevsuf Battery Cemetery
- Kumkale Plain Intepe Battery Cemetery
- Replica of the minelayer Nusret
Resources
Gallipoli: A Battlefield Guide, Phil Taylor & Pam Cupper, 2000, ISBN 0-7318-0983-1External links
- Gallipoli guide with photographs
- http://www.gallipoli.com.tr/battlefields_gallipoli_campaign.htm another complete list of cemeteries, memorials and relics in gallipoli