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| Gallipoli Shrapnel Valley Cemetery |
Gallipoli Shrapnel Valley and Cemetery
On the first days of landing, the Allied troops used the area where the cemetery now is as a road up to the Turkish positions. Stretcher-bearers and troops carrying ammunition, food and water traversed up and down Shrapnel Valley (or "Shrapnel Gully") throughout the campaign. Turkish artillery was able to regularly bombard the area with heavy gunfire. The name of the cemetery comes from the amount of shelling fired from Turkish field guns located on Third Ridge (Gun Ridge).
Shrapnel Valley (Shrapnel Gully) Cemetery was first begun during the war. Shrapnel Valley Cemetery is now 50 meters away from the coast road. It was first laid out near the exit to the beach from the valley, south of Anzac Cove, in early May 1915. After Lone Pine it is the largest battlefield cemetery in the old Anzac sector. Largely completed during the Gallipoli Campaign, a small number of graves were incorporated into the cemetery after the war. Of the 683 burials in the cemetery, 527 are Australians, 56 New Zealanders, 28 British and 72 unknown. Special Memorials commemorate 23 men believed to be buried here.
Shrapnel Valley (Shrapnel Gully) Cemetery was first begun during the war. Shrapnel Valley Cemetery is now 50 meters away from the coast road. It was first laid out near the exit to the beach from the valley, south of Anzac Cove, in early May 1915. After Lone Pine it is the largest battlefield cemetery in the old Anzac sector. Largely completed during the Gallipoli Campaign, a small number of graves were incorporated into the cemetery after the war. Of the 683 burials in the cemetery, 527 are Australians, 56 New Zealanders, 28 British and 72 unknown. Special Memorials commemorate 23 men believed to be buried here.
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Today Shrapnel Valley, with its distinctive Judas tree, is considered to be amongst the most beautiful cemeteries on the peninsula. |
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