Gallipoli Baby 700 Cemetery
The hill known as ‘Baby 700’, some 180 metres above sea level, was one of the main Australian objectives at the dawn landing on 25 April 1915. Part of the Sari Bair Range, ‘Baby 700’ connected Russell’s Top with Battleship Hill (‘Big 700’) and was reached by small parties of the 11th and 12th Battalions a couple of hours after the landing. The few Turkish soldiers, who had been defending the beach area, were withdrawing back up the range. However, despite assistance from the Auckland Infantry Battalion, later in day the Turks forced the Australians and New Zealanders back to a line near where the Nek Cemetery is today.
History
Baby 700 Cemetery is the most northerly of the old Anzac cemeteries. It was constructed after the war when the remains of 493 Allied soldiers were brought here from other battlefield burial sites. Only forty-three sets of remains could be identified, twenty-three of whom are Australians. Ten ‘Special Memorials’ were erected to men known to have been buried in Baby 700. The majority of the Australians, mostly from the 1st, 2nd and 11th Battalions, commemorated here died on either 25 April or 2 May 1915.
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