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List of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula information


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.

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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...

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Gallipoli Peninsula Historical Site

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government and is included in the United Nations list of National Parks and Protected Areas. Gallipoli Peninsula Historical Site is home to memorials, graveyards...

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Gallipoli

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and war memorials on the Gallipoli peninsula. Between 1923 and 1926 Gallipoli became the centre of Gelibolu Province, comprising the districts of Gelibolu...

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Gallipoli campaign

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in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916. The Entente powers, Britain, France and the Russian...

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Helles Memorial

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The Helles Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Sedd el Bahr, in Turkey, on the headland at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula...

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List of World War I monuments and memorials

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Ossuary to the Defenders of Belgrade List of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial Arıburnu Memorial Chunuk...

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Lone Pine Cemetery

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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...

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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme

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lists the memorials and cemeteries around the area of the river Somme. Mametz Wood was to be the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the opening...

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Anzac Day

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the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in the Gallipoli campaign, their first engagement in the First World War (1914–1918)...

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Military history of New Zealand during World War I

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commemorated in cemeteries near where they were lost rather than at the large memorials of Menin Gate and the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme. The New Zealand...

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Battle of the Nek

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World War I. "The Nek" was a narrow stretch of ridge on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The name derives from the Afrikaans word for a "mountain pass" but the terrain...

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World War I

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Australia and New Zealand, the Battle of Gallipoli became known as those nations' "Baptism of Fire". It was the first major war in which the newly established...

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List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing

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each. The total from the 'numbers' column below of those listed on these memorials is 138,062. List of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula...

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Battle of Lone Pine

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Ottoman Empire forces during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War, between 6 and 10 August 1915. The battle was part of a diversionary attack to...

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Landing at Cape Helles

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1753 The landing at Cape Helles (Turkish: Seddülbahir Çıkarması) was part of the Gallipoli Campaign, the amphibious landings on the Gallipoli peninsula by...

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William Birdwood

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good use of distance educational courses. In May 1936, he returned to Gallipoli aboard RMS Lancastria and visited war memorials on the peninsula. He retired...

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Fabian Ware

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memorials". By 1926, the IWGC had built 31 cemeteries and five memorials on the peninsula. Ware travelled extensively post-war, visiting Canada (1925)...

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John Monash

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Elsewhere, the offensive also stalled, resulting in disaster for the last co-ordinated effort to defeat the Turkish forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula. By mid-August...

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Garth Walford

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in V Beach Cemetery. On 26th April, 1915, subsequent to a landing having been effected on the beach at a point on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during which...

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Cyril Bassett

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and devotion to duty on the Chunuk Bair ridge in the Gallipoli Peninsula on 7th August, 1915. After the New Zealand Infantry Brigade had attacked and...

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Shrine of Remembrance

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It is a site of annual observances for Anzac Day (25 April) and Remembrance Day (11 November), and is one of the largest war memorials in Australia....

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Connaught Rangers

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absorbed into the 3rd Battalion in May 1918. The 5th (Service) Battalion, which was formed in Dublin in August 1914, landed at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli in August...

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Australian Light Horse

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costly battles, such as the Battle of the Nek. After the evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula in December 1915, the light horse regiments that had been...

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Charles Bean

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History of the Australian Fighting Services in the First World War. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. p. 181. Bean, C. E. W. (1948). Gallipoli Mission...

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Royal Norfolk Regiment

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1942 by the French and reburied in the local churchyard which now forms part of the Le Paradis War Cemetery. A memorial plaque was placed on the barn wall...

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