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Gallipoli Shell Green Cemetery
Shell Green Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery from the First World War in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, overlooking the Aegean Sea. The cemetery is on a former cottonfield at the edge of a steep slope leading from Bolton's Ridge to the sea, near the southern end of the Anzac sector. The area was captured by the 8th Australian Infantry on 25 April 1915 but remained sufficiently near to the front line for the rest of the campaign to suffer frequent Turkish shelling, hence its name. Shell Green was in use until December 1915.
History:
After the Armistice in 1918, two cemeteries a short distance apart were combined and 64 graves consolidated into it from four other cemeteries which were close.The cemetery covers an area of 2,750 square yards. It contains the graves of 408 soldiers from Australia and one from the United Kingdom. Eleven are unidentified. On either side of it is a thick belt of shrubs, and behind it a belt of trees. Many of the original graves were elaborately decorated before the evacuation in December 1915.
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