Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC

Cemetery Details

Location Lone Pine, Cannakale Province, Turkey
Co‑ordinates N40.230757, E26.287519
Description

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. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts.

Lone Pine was a strategically important plateau in the southern part of Anzac which was briefly in the hands of Australian forces following the landings on 25 April. It became a Turkish strong point from May to July, when it was known by them as 'Kanli Sirt' (Bloody Ridge). 

The Australians pushed mines towards the plateau from the end of May to the beginning of August and on the afternoon of 6 August, after mine explosions and bombardment from land and sea, the position was stormed by the 1st Australian Brigade. By 10 August, the Turkish counter-attacks had failed and the position was consolidated. It was held by the 1st Australian Division until 12 September, and then by the 2nd, until the evacuation of the peninsula in December.

The original battle cemetery of 46 graves was enlarged after the Armistice when scattered graves were brought in from the neighbourhood, and from Brown's Dip North and South Cemeteries, which contained the graves of 149 Australian soldiers. These cemeteries were in the depression at the head of Victoria Gully, behind the Australian trenches of April-August 1915. 

There are now 1,167 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 504 of the burials are unidentified. Special memorials commemorate 183 soldiers (all but one of them Australian, most of whom died in August), who were known or believed to have been buried in Lone Pine Cemetery, or in the cemeteries at Brown's Dip. 

Within the cemetery stands the LONE PINE MEMORIAL It commemorates more than 4,900 Australian and New Zealand servicemen who died in the Anzac area - the New Zealanders prior to the fighting in August 1915 - whose graves are not known. Others named on the memorial died at sea and were buried in Gallipoli waters.

 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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Names

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FARRIER, Charles Percy

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 31 Oct 1894

SMITH, George Holt Henderson

Service number 618
Second Lieutenant
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 17 May 1895

CARMICHAEL, David

Service number 1922
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1888

BUFFETT, Allan Fletcher

Service number 1103
Private
3rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 8 Oct 1887

KING, Charles

Service number 556
Driver
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 24 Jul 1891

BEAVIS, Edward Bathurst

Service number 1717
Lance Corporal
4th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Sep 1892

HOOPER, Robert Murdoch Finlayson

Service number OFFICER
Captain
5th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 11 Jun 1889

HURLSTONE, George Henry

Service number 1135
Private

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