Gallipoli Tours
This is a list of all cemeteries and memorials erected following the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915 during World War I . It isn't a list of Gallipoli tours visitings. There is one French cemetery, 31 Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries containing mainly dead from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, India and Newfoundland, and over 50 memorials, grave sites and cemeteries dedicated to the Turkish casualties.
Helles Sector Cemeteries and Memorials
Cemeteries of Gallipoli Tours
Allied
French War Cemetery
Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Pink Farm Cemetery
Redoubt Cemetery
Skew Bridge Cemetery
Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery
V Beach Cemetery
Turkish
Alçıtepe Mass Grave
Seddülbahir Ammunition Dump’s Cemetery (mass grave)
Onion Valley Turkish War Cemetery
There is only one solitary marked Allied grave outside of a cemetery on the peninsula resulting from the campaign, that of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie. He was buried close to where he was killed during the capture of Seddülbahir on the morning of April 26, 1915.
There are several isolated Turkish graves, those of Soldier Halil Ibrahim, Lt-Colonel Hasan and 2nd Lieutenant Mustafa.
Memorials of Gallipoli Tours
Allied
Cape Helles Memorial to the Missing - Britain and the British Commonwealth
France - French War Cemetery Memorial, Morto Bay - France
The New Zealand memorial in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery
The memorial to Eric Duckworth in Redoubt Cemetery is unique in the peninsula as a private memorial within a CWCG cemetery
Turkish
Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial
18 March 1915 Memorial
Alçıtepe Garrison War Memorial
First Martyrs Memorial
Gully Ravine Nuri Yamut Memorial
Gully Ravine Field Dressing Post Memorial & Cemetery
Gully Ravine Turkish Soldiers Memorial
Last Arrow Memorial
Marshal Fevzi Çakmak's War Memorial
Sergeant Yahya Memorial
Anzac Sector Cemeteries and Memorials
Cemeteries of Gallipoli Tours
Allied
4th Battalion Parade Ground Cemetery
7th Field Ambulance Cemetery
Ari Burnu Cemetery
Baby 700 Cemetery
Beach Cemetery
Canterbury Cemetery
Chunuk Bair Cemetery
Courtney's and Steel's Post Cemetery
Embarkation Pier Cemetery
Hill 60 Cemetery
Johnston's Jolly Cemetery
Lone Pine Cemetery
No. 2 Outpost Cemetery
New Zealand No. 2 Outpost Cemetery
Plugge's Plateau Cemetery
Quinn's Post Cemetery
Shell Green Cemetery
Shrapnel Valley Cemetery
The Farm Cemetery
The Nek Cemetery
Walker's Ridge Cemetery
Turkish
Karayörük Valley Cemetery
57th Infantry Regiment Memorial
Kesikdere Cemetery
Çataldere Cemetery
Kocadere Hospital Memorial and Cemetery
There are also isolated Turkish graves belonging to Lt-Colonel Hussein Manastir, Captain Mehmet and First Lt Nazif Çakmak.
Memorials of Gallipoli Tours
Allied
Chunuk Bair - New Zealand
Lone Pine Memorial - Australia and New Zealand
Hill 60 - New Zealand
Turkish
Sergeant Mehmet’s Memorial
Chunuk Bair Soldiers’ Memorial
Chunuk Bair Atatürk Memorial
Scrubby Knoll Turkish War Memorial
Turkish War Memorial at The Nek
Kabatepe (Gaba Tepe) Info Centre & Memorials
27th Regiments' Queensland Point Memorial
Ari Burnu Memorial
Damakçilik Bair Memorial
Lone Pine Memorial (Turkish)
Respect to Turkish Soldiers Memorial
Respect to Enemy Soldier’s Memorial
Chunuk Bair Unknown Soldiers' Memorial & Grave
Suvla Sector Cemeteries and Memorials
Cemeteries of Gallipoli Tours
Allied
Azmak Cemetery
Green Hill Cemetery
Hill 10 Cemetery
Lala Baba Cemetery
Turkish
1st Lt Halid & 2 Lt Ali Riza’s Graves
1st Lt Hasan Tahsin & Regtl Mufti’s Graves
Kireçtepe Gendarmes Cemetery
Lt Colonel Halit & Ziya’s Graves
Pine Monastery Cemetery
There is also a single isolated marked Turkish grave, belonging to a German nurse, Erica Ragip, the wife of a medical officer, who was killed by a howitzer shell.
Memorials of Gallipoli Tours
Turkish
Scimitar Hill Memorial
Suvla Point Memorial
Kireçtepe Memorial
Gallipoli Tours
Type of Gallipoli Tours
- Gallipoli Day Tours
- Gallipoli Package Tours
- Anzac Day Tours
- Private Gallipoli Tours
- Gallipoli Battlefield Tours
Gallipoli Tours Visits
A route of the Gallipoli day tour;
+ Beach Cemetery and Anzac Cove (First ANZAC landing place)
+ John Simpson’s Grave in Beach Cemetery ( he carried wounded ANZAC’s during the campaign )
+ Ari Burnu and Ariburnu Cemetery
+ Anzac Commemorative Site on North Beach ( they stayed here until the end of the war )
+ Respect to Mehmetcik Statue (The story told for Lord Casey on his remebrance)
+ Lone Pine Australian Cemetery – Memorial (Australian Commemorative Site)
+ Walk to Johnston’s Jolly from Lone Pine in the original ANZAC trenches and tunnels
+ Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial on the Chessboard
+ View to Shrapnel Valley and Anzac Cliffs ( Everyone was afraid to walk )
+ The Nek (Light Horse scene depicted in the Gallipoli movie) & Walker’s Ridge
+ Walk to Chunuk Bair from Hill 261 in the restored ANZAC and Turkish trenches
+ The Anonymous Grave ( Made in 1985 is during the restoring trenches )
+ Chunuk Bair Main New Zealand Memorial ( New Zealand Commemorative Site )
+ View to Anafartalar Plain, Suvla Bay and Salt Lake
+ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Memorial
+ Also some places around the road
Why is Gallipoli so important?
The Gallipoli campaign was deemed a disaster, but the legend of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) has become a cornerstone of modern culture;
Gallipoli has become a symbol of Australia's national identity, achievement and existence, according to Australian War Memorial principal historian Dr Peter Stanley. Gallipoli tours
Here's a weird thing. There's a battle, a long way from home and a long time ago. A lot of men are killed and wounded. It was a defeat and it didn't change anything. But we're still interested in it. Is that weird or what?
It is indeed weird. But not mysterious. For Australia, Gallipoli has become an important founding legend. It is attracting even greater attention as the 90th anniversary approaches. Why?
Australians entered the Great War welcoming conflict as a test of their nationhood. Their nation had been born amid prosaic debates and referenda, not in war. The troops who landed on April 25, 1915- almost all civilians less than a year before - wondered how they would meet the challenge. Gallipoli tours
In the event, the landing was a military disaster - it failed to meet its objectives. But merely hanging on in the face of determined Turkish attacks was triumph enough. Charles Bean, the Australian official correspondent, declared that with the landing on Gallipoli a sense of Australian nationhood was born. The idea took root.
Bean's The Anzac Book defined what came to be called the Anzac legend. It encompassed bravery, ingenuity, endurance and the comradeship that Australians call mateship.
Nations create the history they need. Gallipoli, though the basis of the annual ritual of Anzac Day from the early 1920s, remained neglected as an historical event. For 50 years after Bean published his definitive official history very few seemed interested in the Great War. Gallipoli tours
For a time, in the aftermath of defeat in Vietnam, it seemed that Anzac Day might vanish into obscurity, like Empire Day.
But an assertive Australian national identity has returned to affirm the connection between Gallipoli and nationhood. On the 90th anniversary of the campaign Gallipoli remains interesting still. The anniversary has generated books, films, ceremonies and pilgrimages. Almost as many Australians attend the dawn ceremony at Anzac Cove as the same number of troops which landed there in 1915.
The Anzac legend has become elastic enough to span very different emotions. Fervent nationalists can exult; pilgrims can mourn. All can ponder what made that group of Australians able to endure one of the greatest tests their nation has ever faced.
This massive interest might be the result of careful marketing, by schools, publishers, the media or government agencies. But it seems that while the expression of interest might be directed, the consumption of the products seem to reflect the popular interest rather than manipulate it.
Gallipoli, a minor, failed campaign (which cost less than a sixth of the Australian deaths on the Western Front) fulfils a need felt by many Australians to connect with or express their national identity. Much of what is said or written makes tenuous history - it presents a defeat as a victory of sorts, ignores some aspects and boost others, often with a distinctly anti-British spin.
It is dodgy history because it says as much about what Australians today feel about themselves as it relates to the events of the campaign. Gallipoli has become a symbol of Australia's national identity, achievement and existence.
This feature was written by Dr Peter Stanley for ABC News Online's Anzac Day coverage in 2006. At that time, Dr Stanley was principal historian at the Australian War Memorial. In early 2007 he was appointed director of the centre for historical research at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
