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Cemetery Details

Location Shell Green, Cannakale Province, Turkey
Co‑ordinates N40.2280105, E26.2794868
Description

Shell Green was captured, and passed, by the 8th Australian Infantry Battalion on the morning of 25 April, but it remained close to the Turkish line throughout the campaign and was subject to frequent shelling.

The cemetery was used from May to December 1915, largely by the Australian Light Horse and the 9th and 11th Infantry Battalions. It was originally two cemeteries a short distance apart, but after the Armistice the two were combined and enlarged when graves were brought in from the battlefields.

 

Shell Green was the site of the famous "cricket match photo" between members of the 1st Light Horse Brigade, staged during the lead up to the evacuation as part of the deception plan.

 

For further details refer to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission link.

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DUNBAR, Tom Park

Service number 861
Trooper
7th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

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MARLEY, Ernest George

Service number 514
Trooper
5th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1887

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MADDIFORD, Frederick

Service number 1774
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1888

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KIMBER, Henry Robert

Service number 2399
Private
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 7 Dec 1880

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ANDERSON, John Shaw

Service number 1504
Lance Corporal
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Mar 1896

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STOKES, Thomas William

Service number 946
Private
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

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NEAVE, George Danford

Service number 685
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 26 Jan 1894

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PRATT, Charles Frederick

Service number 1170
Private
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

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