Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula

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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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

MONGER, Adrian Calero

Service number 1986
Private
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1891

MCLEOD, Maurice Leslie

Lieutenant
8th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 11 Apr 1894

HARRIS, Hubert Jennings Imrie

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant Colonel
5th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 19 Jan 1871

DENNEY, James Arthur

Service number 1743
Private
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Jan 1893

WRIGLEY, Arthur

Service number 1446
Private
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 24 Sep 1884

MILLINGTON, Henry Lees

Service number 53
Driver
4th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1893

DOWTON, Edward Richard

Service number 79
Lance Corporal
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 17 Jul 1892

COOK, Reginald Hastings

Service number 2435
Private
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 26 Jun 1893

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