Canterbury Cemetery

Gallipoli WW1 Canterbury Anzac Cemetery;  (27 burials) was so named from the fact that the majority of the burials in it are of men of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles.

Canterbury Anzac Cemetery

Location of Canterbury

The Anzac and Suvla cemeteries are first signposted from the left hand junction of the Eceabat- Bigali road. From this junction travel into the main Anzac area.

After 11.6kms. the cemetery will be found on your right.

Information of Canterbury

Canterbury Cemetery is one of the central cemeteries in Anzac and was made after the Armistice. It contains the graves of 27 Commonwealth Servicemen of the First World War, five of them unidentified. 20 of the graves are of men of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles (mostly the Canterbury Mounted Rifles).