Gallipoli The Nek Cemetery

Gallipoli The Nek Cemetery

The Nek was very important position on the northern edge of the ANZAC front line and the scene of a tragic attack .It was a narrow bridge of land which is between Russell's Top and Baby 700 across the top of Monash Valley.

History:

The Nek Cemetery is a small War Graves cemetery near Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. In early 1919, when official historian Charles Bean visited the Gallipoli battlefields, the remains of more than three hundred men who had died in the 7 August 1915 charge were found on a piece of land the size of three tennis courts. The cemetery was constructed right after 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 Australian troopers who had died in the battle four years previous. 316 unidentified soldiers, the majority of whom were Australian Light Horsemen, lie under the grass at The Nek.

Gallipoli The Nek Cemetery

Gallipoli The Nek