Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli

Cemetery Details

Location Gallipoli , Cannakale, Türkiye
Co‑ordinates N40.23394, E26.27837
Description

Location Information
The Anzac and Suvla cemeteries are first signposted from the left hand junction of the Eceabat - Bigali Road. From this junction you travel into the main Anzac area. After 10.1 km's you take a right turn along a short track to find the cemetery on your left. Shrapnel Valley (or Shrapnel Gully) runs from the west side of the Lone Pine Plateau, behind Maclagan's Ridge, south-westwards to the sea near Hell Spit (Queensland Point).

History Information
The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. Shrapnel Valley was an essential road from the beach up to the Anzac front and took its name from the heavy shelling it was given by the Turks on 26 April 1915. Wells were sunk there and water obtained in small quantities, and there were camps and depots on the south side of its lower reaches. Gun positions were made near its mouth. The cemetery was made mainly during the occupation, but some isolated graves were brought in from the valley after the Armistice. There are now 683 Commonwealth servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 85 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate 23 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.

 
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PARTRIDGE, Edgar Charles

Service number 1505A
Corporal
13th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1885

BELL, Eric Chalcroft

Service number 739
Trooper
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 5 Jan 1893

NASH, Allan William

Service number OFFICER
Major
2nd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 7 May 1879

MURPHY, John George

Service number 1163
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 May 1894

HENDERSON, Albert Edward

Service number 1690
Private
17th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 27 Oct 1898

BROCK, Halcombe Ferrier

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 28 May 1887

MILLER, William Herbert

Service number 624
Private
17th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

SPRATT, James Charles

Service number 1402
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 7 Jun 1877

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